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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING BOARD
QUARTERLY PUBLIC HEARING AGENDA
May 23, 2011
7:00 P. M.
Department of Social Services
Hillsborough Commons
113 Mayo Street
Hillsborough, North Carolina
NOTE: Information is
Available in the Planning
Department orthe
Clerk's Office
NOTICE TO PEOPLE WITH IMPAIRED HEARING: Audio amplification equipment is
available on request. If you need this assistance, please call the County Clerk's
Office at 132-8181 or 961-9251.
A. OPENING REMARKS FROM THE CHAIR
B. PUBLIC CHARGE
The Board of Commissioners pledges to the citizens of Orange County its respect. The
Board asks its citizens to conduct themselves in a respectful, courteous manner, both
with the Board and with fellow citizens. At any time should any member of the Board or
any citizen fail to observe this public charge, the Chair will ask the offending member to
leave the meeting until that individual regains personal control. Should decorum fail to
be restored, the Chair will recess the meeting until such time that a genuine
commitment to this public charge is observed. All electronic devices such as cell
phones, pagers, and computers should please be turned off orsetto silent/vibrate.
C. PUBLIC HEARING ITEMS
1. Conditional Use District (CUD) Rezoning Application in Conjunction with a
Major Subdivision - To review adeveloper-initiated project that would allow for a
27-lot major subdivision at the northwest intersection of Tinnin Road (SR 1313) and
School House Road (SR 1314). The rezoning request is from Rural Residential (R-1)
to High Intensity Residential Conditional Use (R-8-CU).
2. Class A Special Use Permit (SUP) Application Proposing Development of a
Montessori School - To review adeveloper-initiated project that would allow for
development of a Montessori School at the intersection of Lawrence Road and Old
NC 10.
3. 2030 Comprehensive Plan Text Amendment - To review agovernment-initiated
amendment to clarify language as it pertains to economic development and mixed
uses currently allowed within the existing Commercial-Industrial Transition Activity
Node land use category.
4. 2030 Comprehensive Plan Land Use Element Map Amendment - To review a
government-initiated amendment to change the land use category of approximately
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423-acres bounded by Ben Wilson Rd., Bowman Rd., West Ten Rd., and Interstates
85140 from Agricultural Residential to Commercial Industrial Transition Activity
Node.
5. 2030 Comprehensive Plan Land Use Element Map Amendment - To review a
government-initiated amendment to change the land use category of approximately
118-acres along the general corridor of Interstates 85/40 in the Efland area from
Agricultural Residential to Commercial Industrial Transition Activity Node and
approximately 16-acres at the southern end of Gaines Chapel Rd from Agricultural
Residential to 10-year transition. These amendments are afollow-up to the Upper
Eno Watershed Critical Area zoning amendments that occurred in June 2010.
6. Unified Development Ordinance Text Amendments - To review agovernment-
initiated text amendment to the following sections of the Unified Development
Ordinance: Section 3.4 - General Commercial Districts (modify the
Officellnstitutional [Oll] Zoning District including the Purpose, Applicability,
Dimensional and Ratio Standards, and Specific Development Standards sections);
Section 5.2 -Table of Permitted Uses (modify the Permitted Uses allowed in
the OI General Use Zoning District); and Article 10 -Definitions (modify
definitions of `Open Space Ratio' and `Recreation Space Ratio'}.
7. Zoning Atlas Amendment - To review agovernment-initiated amendment to
rezone all undeveloped parcels of property north of Interstates 85/40, east of Mt.
Willing Road, south of the railroad right-of-way, and west of the US 70 Connector
from Rural Residential (R-1} and Agricultural Residential (AR) to Officellnstitutional
(Oll). Four undeveloped parcels and a portion of a fifth parcel totaling 112.35 acres
are proposed to be rezoned. No project is proposed at this time. This rezoning is
proposed in order to `pre-zone' the area for potential economic development
projects.
D. ADJOURNMENT OF PUBLIC HEARING
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