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f MINUTES ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS FEBRUARY 26, 1979 The Orange County Board of Commissioners met in regular session, on Monday, February 26, 1979, at 7:30 p.m. , in the Superior Court Room, of the Orange County Courthouse, in Hillsborough, North Carolina. Members Present: Commissioner Richard Whitted, Chairman, and Commissioners Norman Walker, Norman Gustaveson, Anne Barnes and Don Willhoit. Planning Board Members Present: Dr. Robert Bonar, Chairman, Mr. Lindsay Efland, Ms. Pat Crawford, Dr. J. Logan Irvin, Mr. Art Cleary and Mr. John Scarlett. Chairman Whitted turned the meeting over to Dr. Bonar, Chairman of the Planning Board, to conduct a public hearing. Agenda Item 1A: Petition to Rezone a 10 Acre Tract in Chapel Hill Township from Planned Unit Development to Residential The Planning Director reviewed the petition to rezone filed by Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Putnam. The Planning Staff could not. detect any problems in zoning the property back to residential . Mrs. Elizabeth Anderson spoke in favor of the petition to rezone and stated the petition to rezone was filed because the property owners' proposal had not proven economically feasible and they were left with no alternative except to file a petition for rezoning back to residential . Dr. Irvin stated, since none of the property which had been zoned planned unit development had been sold, rezoning the property back to residential created no hardship; however, if some of this property had been sold for planning or developmental purposes, rezoning back to residential might produce a serious hardship to the purchaser. Dr. Irvin advised persons attempting to rezone to planned unit development in the future be quite sure of their position, as it would -probably be quite difficult to get the property zoned back to the original zoning if any property within the subdivision had been sold. No other person spoke to this item.