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2 <br />BACKGROUND: On February 25, 2008 and April 1, 2008 the BOCC and the Planning Board <br />held a Joint Public Hearing to review BVPD Planned Development (hereafter `PD') Rezoning <br />Application and Class A Special Use Permit (hereafter `SUP') proposing the development of an <br />approximately 1.14 million square foot retail development with a minor residential component on <br />138 acres of properly located within the I-85/Buckhorn Road Economic Development District <br />(hereafter `EDD'). The development is proposed to meet detailed LEED standards as noted <br />within the record. This property is located near the southeast corner of the I-85 Buckhorn Road <br />intersection. <br />On September 2 the Board of County Commissioners received the record/evidence and <br />recommendations for the project from the Zoning Officer and Planning Board and closed the <br />public hearing. <br />Within the I-85/Buckhorn Road EDD certain uses are permitted by right and other uses .are <br />permitted with the processing of a PD rezoning application, which also includes a companion <br />SUP. As an example, a retail enclosed mall is permitted by right within the EDD district but <br />multi-building retail establishments (which is the case with the Buckhorn Village application) <br />require a PD/SUP to illustrate the "preliminary development concept plan" [Zoning Ordinance <br />7.5.1.(c)] or master plan for the arrangement of uses, traffic and pedestrian systems, utilities, <br />open space, and unified control of common elements. Please refer to Attachment Six for a <br />more detailed breakdown. <br />The application is reviewed in accordance with the standards and requirements outlined within <br />the County Zoning Ordinance: <br />® Article Seven (7) Planned Developments <br />• Article Eight (8) Special Use Permits <br />• Section 6.29 Development Standards for Economic Development (ED) Districts (i.e. the <br />Economic Development District Design Manual), and <br />• Article Twenty (20) Zoning Amendments <br />Attachment One is organized to correlate the requirements of the above referenced Zoning <br />ordinance requirements and the compliance of the application components with the various <br />standards. <br />Since the application includes both a legislative rezoning component, as well as a quasi judicial <br />SUP component, all of the information submitted (application and attachments), public <br />hearing(s) comments, sworn testimony (SUP), comments (rezoning), responses, and minutes <br />are organized within a large 3" white binder with blue cover distributed for the June 3 Board of <br />County Commissioners meeting. This document has also been amended to include Planning <br />Board, staff, consultant, and applicant activity subsequent to that meeting. <br />As further background regarding the sequence of review, the following activities are <br />summarized. <br />May 21, 2008 Planning Board Special Meeting; Motion of the Board: <br />`The Planning Board recommends that the Board of Commissioners postpone action on <br />application until revised plans and additional information are submitted by the applicant <br />