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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT <br />EVIDENTIARY HEARING <br />AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: November 12, 2025 <br />Agenda <br />Item No. 6 <br />SUBJECT: Special Use Permit request proposing “Care Facilities” use located at PIN 9850- <br />09-3606 , and 1009 Hi Mar Lane, Chapel Hill, Bingham Township <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections <br />ATTACHMENTS: INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />1.Staff Report <br />2.Application Package, including Site Plan <br />and Supplemental Materials <br />3.Neighborhood Information Meeting <br />Materials <br />4.Notification Materials and Certification <br />5. Project Correspondence and <br />Development Advisory Committee <br />Comments <br />6.Findings of Fact and Draft Motion <br />Taylor Perschau Current Planning and Zoning <br /> Manager, 919-245-2597 <br />Cy Stober, Planning and Inspections Director <br />919-245-2592 <br />PURPOSE: To hold a quasi-judicial evidentiary hearing, receive sworn testimony and evidence, <br />and take action on a Special Use Permit 25-0016 (hereafter “SUP”) application proposing a “Care <br />Facility” use on a +/- 9.67-acre parcel (PIN 9850-09-3606) located at 1009 Hi Mar Lane, Chapel <br />Hill, NC, within the Bingham Township, in accordance with the following Unified Development <br />Ordinance (UDO) provisions: <br />•Section 2.7: Special Use Permits; <br />•Section 5.2: Table of Permitted Uses; <br />•Section 5.3.2: Application of Use Standards – Special Uses; and <br />•Section 5.8.2: Care Facilities <br />BACKGROUND: On August 19, 2025, a SUP application (Attachment 2) was received to utilize <br />the property to operate a “Care Facilities” use (Land Use #19) in Section 5.2: Table of Permitted <br />Uses of the UDO) located on a +/-9.67-acre parcel at 1009 Hi Mar Lane, Chapel Hill, NC. As <br />detailed within the application, the property currently holds bona fide farm status, and conducts <br />farm-based therapy services as a bona fide farm-related use. Bona fide farm uses and structures <br />are exempt from County zoning per NC General Statute 160D-903. Structures associated with <br />bona fide farm uses are neither regulated nor fully inspected by Orange County Building <br />Inspections and Fire & Life Safety Divisions. The applicant has submitted this SUP application to <br />establish the Care Facility as a non-farm use and subsequently request and receive fire <br />inspection, which is not currently granted to bona fide farm structures. Local fire inspection would <br />allow for Jubilee Integrated Wellness to pursue a State healthcare licensure program that would <br />12