PB Agenda Packet - October 1 2025

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9 163 tonight's is a conditional district zoning. For a conditional district zoning,the request is going to be 164 use specific with an individualized development plan, including a site plan, conditions that are 165 agreed upon by the applicant and ultimately the Board of County Commissioners, and site-specific 166 standards, so the site-specific development plan has been included in the application from its very 167 submittal. It has gone through minor revisions. It has had, it started with planning staff review, 168 went through the development advisory committee,there was a neighborhood information 169 meeting, and finally we're here tonight for Planning Board review and recommendation to the 170 Board of County Commissioners. As Lamar stated,the project is in the Hillsborough Township. 171 The green in the map you see on the screen is the Hillsborough Township, so the dark gray notes 172 city limits for Hillsborough. The light gray notes Town of Hillsborough's extra territorial jurisdiction 173 in which municipal services,so city limits don't extend to the ETJ, but planning and zoning 174 jurisdiction do. 175 176 Lamar Proctor: I just have a minor correction before we go on. I think I said developer. I should have said 177 applicant,so using the proper nomenclature, so we have an applicant who is applying for a zoning 178 change. 179 180 Taylor Perschau: Correct. 181 182 Taylor Perschau: As Lamar noted, it is currently zoned agricultural residential. It is also located in the Lower Eno 183 unprotected watershed. The request is for a rezone to residential conditional for the use of a 184 major subdivision and single-family dwellings specifically. Surrounding zoning in the green on this 185 visual is agricultural residential, some yellow are R1 and R3,which is low to medium intensity rural 186 residential uses. To the east of the subject parcel is Eno River Academy,which is within the Town 187 of Hillsborough city limits. To the south, that grayed area, again, is the extra territorial jurisdiction 188 for the Town of Hillsborough. As with all zoning requests,we're asked to compare what's being 189 requested to what the future land use map as adopted by the Board of County Commissioners 190 designates this area for. This particular parcel falls under both rural industrial activity node and 191 agricultural residential. I wanted to particularly highlight what rural industrial activity node means, 192 as that's quite different from one that we often see. The future land use plan describes this as 193 land designated in the comprehensive plan that is designed on designated road intersections 194 which serve as nodal crossroads for surrounding rural community and is an appropriate location 195 for small-scale industrial uses which do not require urban-type services, and there is no proposed 196 amendment to either of these two future land use designations. Of note,this property is also 197 mapped within the Town of Hillsborough Orange County Central Orange Coordinated Area land 198 use plan. The subject parcel is classified as mixed residential neighborhood by this land use plan, 199 which is defined as the dominant land use in any proposed development is expected to be 200 residential based on square footage of proposed structures. Developments may contain a single 201 or variety of dwelling types and densities or may integrate a variety of supportive commercial 202 public and semi-public uses and open or public space. Small developments that provide only 203 supportive non-residential land uses in an infill arrangement serving more than 50 dwelling units in 204 a walkable manner may also be considered. So part of what has been brought before you tonight, 205 as is required by the unified development ordinance for a conditional district rezoning application 206 includes site-specific plan, an environmental assessment, a biological inventory, and as noted, 207 this has gone before review agencies, including the Orange County Development Advisory 208 Committee,which includes addressing and land records staff; building inspections; department of 209 environment, agriculture, parks and recreation; environmental health; erosion control; and fire and 210 life safety. North Carolina Department of Transportation is also involved in our DAC review, and 211 staff submitted the entire application packet to the state environmental review clearinghouse. The 212 DAC comments included in the application packet note all of the needed permits or concerns or 213 advisory comments from all the DAC members. I will let the applicant get into their site-specific 214 plan. I will quickly say it's proposing a 49-lot subdivision with lots 20,000 square feet in size. It is 215 proposing two accesses on NC 86 North, and the property does have various mapped 216 jurisdictional streams on site,which are subject to Orange County stream buffer regulations. Per 217 state statute, imposed conditions and site-specific standards are limited to those that address