Agenda 11-18-2025; 5-a - Application for Zoning Atlas Amendment – 1039-UT NC 86 N, Hillsborough, Hillsborough Township

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169 Approved 10.1.25 55 proposed rezoning is from agricultural residential to residential conditional district. The anticipated 56 board of county commissioner public hearing date is November 6 of 2025, so we will have a 57 presenter from the developer on this project, and I would remind them that we limit these 58 presentations to 30 minutes. 59 60 61 Taylor Perschau: Thank you, Chair Proctor. Good evening, board. My name is Taylor Perschau. I am the current 62 planning and zoning manager,the staff planner on this zoning atlas amendment as Lamar just 63 summarized. I will be going through the conditional district zoning process as a reminder of what 64 has already happened in the review process to get the project to this Planning Board. The 65 applicant team are familiar faces to you all, as we saw a different application from the Forestar 66 Group at your August meeting, so a reminder on the conditional district zoning process. There are 67 two different zoning processes available to applicants. One is conventional district. The other 68 tonight's is a conditional district zoning. For a conditional district zoning,the request is going to be 69 use specific with an individualized development plan, including a site plan, conditions that are 70 agreed upon by the applicant and ultimately the Board of County Commissioners, and site-specific 71 standards, so the site-specific development plan has been included in the application from its very 72 submittal. It has gone through minor revisions. It has had, it started with planning staff review, 73 went through the development advisory committee, there was a neighborhood information 74 meeting, and finally we're here tonight for Planning Board review and recommendation to the 75 Board of County Commissioners. As Lamar stated,the project is in the Hillsborough Township. 76 The green in the map you see on the screen is the Hillsborough Township, so the dark gray notes 77 city limits for Hillsborough. The light gray notes Town of Hillsborough's extra territorial jurisdiction 78 in which municipal services, so city limits don't extend to the ETJ, but planning and zoning 79 jurisdiction do. 80 81 Lamar Proctor: I just have a minor correction before we go on. I think I said developer. I should have said 82 applicant,so using the proper nomenclature, so we have an applicant who is applying for a zoning 83 change. 84 85 Taylor Perschau: Correct. 86 87 Taylor Perschau: As Lamar noted, it is currently zoned agricultural residential. It is also located in the Lower Eno 88 unprotected watershed. The request is for a rezone to residential conditional for the use of a 89 major subdivision and single-family dwellings specifically. Surrounding zoning in the green on this 90 visual is agricultural residential, some yellow are R1 and R3,which is low to medium intensity rural 91 residential uses. To the east of the subject parcel is Eno River Academy,which is within the Town 92 of Hillsborough city limits. To the south,that grayed area, again, is the extra territorial jurisdiction 93 for the Town of Hillsborough. As with all zoning requests,we're asked to compare what's being 94 requested to what the future land use map as adopted by the Board of County Commissioners 95 designates this area for. This particular parcel falls under both rural industrial activity node and 96 agricultural residential. I wanted to particularly highlight what rural industrial activity node means, 97 as that's quite different from one that we often see. The future land use plan describes this as 98 land designated in the comprehensive plan that is designed on designated road intersections 99 which serve as nodal crossroads for surrounding rural community and is an appropriate location 100 for small-scale industrial uses which do not require urban-type services,and there is no proposed 101 amendment to either of these two future land use designations. Of note, this property is also 102 mapped within the Town of Hillsborough Orange County Central Orange Coordinated Area land 103 use plan. The subject parcel is classified as mixed residential neighborhood by this land use plan, 104 which is defined as the dominant land use in any proposed development is expected to be 105 residential based on square footage of proposed structures. Developments may contain a single 106 or variety of dwelling types and densities or may integrate a variety of supportive commercial 107 public and semi-public uses and open or public space. Small developments that provide only 108 supportive non-residential land uses in an infill arrangement serving more than 50 dwelling units in 109 a walkable manner may also be considered. So part of what has been brought before you tonight,