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Vote on a request to approve rezoning for Parcel No. 78290, being all of 14.23 acres, located at 7733 Moncure Pittsboro Rd., Haw River Township, from R-1 Residential to NB Neighborhood Business.
ABSTRACT
Action Requested:
Rezoning request by Par 5 Development Group, LLC for Parcel No. 78290, being all of 14.23 acres, located at 7733 Moncure Pittsboro Rd., Haw River Township, from R-1 Residential to NB Neighborhood Business.
Introduction & Background:
A legislative public hearing was held October 19, 2015 on the request. Planning staff presented the application and noted that the Boards could not consider the proposed use and plan submitted with the general rezoning request due to the potential for illegal contract zoning. The property must be examined as a whole for general use Neighborhood Business zoning and all of the uses available in that district and that any information provided for specific use should be disregarded. Planning staff indicated there were no issues at the time for consideration of general rezoning of the entire tract. A resident of the Moncure area, Ms. Mary Ann Perkins, spoke in favor of the request stating it is needed to keep revenues generated inside Chatham County and to support the Moncure area.
Mr. Scott Brown, applicant, also spoke and presented the application to the Boards. Questions from the Commissioners were if a traffic study had been performed. The applicant stated NCDOT was favorable with the addition of turning lanes to serve the site with one entrance construction and did not require any further traffic study to be conducted.
Commissioners asked about neighboring properties and their proximity to the commercial rezoning request. There are residential uses across Pittsboro Moncure Road but not adjacent or adjoining the site. Mr. Harold Taylor, resident across Moncure-Pittsboro Road, and Ms. Janet Dickson, daughter of a resident across Moncure-Pittsboro Road, also spoke. Their questions were about right ...
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