HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgenda - 11-21-2011 - Dinner Mtg. - EarlyBOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS /PLANNING BOARD
DINNER MEETING
NOVEMBER 21, 2011
5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
(dinner available shortly after 5:00 p.m.)
Link Government Services Center
200 S. Cameron Street, Hillsborough
AGENDA
Tentative 2012 Planning /Planning Board Work Plan Discussion
(Focus on Economic Development and Small Area Plan Implementation)
1) Completed in 2011
• Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) adopted
• Comprehensive Plan Land Use Map Amendments in Bowman Road area (423
acres to Commercial-Industrial Transition Activity Node) and Efland (118 acres to
Commercial-Industrial Transition Activity Node; 16 acres to 10-Year Transition)
adopted
• UDO Text Amendment for Office/Institutional (O/I) zoning district
• Rezoning of 112 acres in Efland to O/I
• Efland-Buckhorn-Mebane Access Management Plan (scheduled for adoption on
11/15/11)
• Interlocal Agreement with the City of Durham regarding water and sewer services
in the Eno EDD area (already approved by Orange County; on City of Durham's
11/21/11 Council for consideration)
2) Upcoming Items
• Tonight's Public Hearing Items
• February 2012 QPH Items:
o Authorized to commence work at November 1, 2011 BOCC meeting
^ UDO Text Amendment to add a new zoning district (EDB-3) or
revise an existing district (EDB-1) and revise Section 5.1.4 to create
additional development options within the areas of the county
slated for water and wastewater services and targeted for
development.
^ Zoning Atlas Amendment to pre-zone certain properties in the
Buckhorn/Mebane Commercial-Industrial Transition Activity Nodes
(CITAN) to prepare the area for eventual non-residential
development.
^ UDO Text Amendment (and possible Zoning Atlas Amendment) to
add a new conditional zoning district -Rural Economic
Development Area (REDA) -that would be applicable to the
geographic area in the Highway 57 Small Area Plan.
^ UDO Text Amendment to add a new Section 6.20 that will require
any new construction with a designated County sewer service area
to use the public sewer system as its means of wastewater
treatment and would require the sewer system as the only repair
option for existing septic tanks that fail in the sewer service area.
^ Comprehensive Plan Land Use Map and Zoning Atlas
Amendments to increase the size of the Eno Economic
Development District to match the urban growth boundary of the
City of Durham.
• May 2012 QPH Items
o Currently Planned
^ UDO Text Amendment for design guidelines pertaining to the
Efland "core area" (can now proceed since BOCC gave direction of
the "sidewalk issue at the October 6, 2010 work session).
^ Comprehensive Plan Land Use Map and Text Amendment to add a
Mixed Use land use category and to change the Efland Village from
Commercial-Industrial Transition Activity Node (CITAN) to Mixed
Use.
^ UDO Text Amendment -Revisions to the Table of Permitted Uses
for Economic Development zoning districts (Staff is currently
evaluating scope).
^ UDO Text Amendment -new or revised general use zoning districts
to promote economic activity in Commercial Transition Activity
Nodes and CITAN (Staff is currently evaluating scope).
• August 2012 QPH Items
o Currently Planned
^ UDO Text Amendment to include any necessary revisions resulting
from a review of development approval processes (Staff plans to
conduct a review beginning in early 2012).
• November 2012 QPH Items
o Currently Planned
^ UDO Text Amendment to add an Agricultural Support Enterprises
zoning district (Staff of 4 departments are currently reviewing past
work on this topic to determine necessary steps).
3) Comprehensive Strategy to Attract Economic Development Projects
• Infrastructure (water, sewer, electric, communication, etc.)
• Site "Ready-to-Go"
o Land Use /Zoning /Regulations
o Other Preparatory Aspects
• Simplified planning brochures for development processes
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