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Vote to approve a request by Nicolas Robinson, on behalf of NNP-Briar Chapel, LLC, and Chatham County to reduce and modify the Perimeter Buffer for Commercial Parcel #20, SD-West, Briar Chapel, pursuant to Section 9.2 of the Compact Communities Ordinance.
ABSTRACT
Action Requested:
Vote to approve a request by Nicolas Robinson, on behalf of NNP-Briar Chapel, LLC, and Chatham County to reduce and modify the Perimeter Buffer for Commercial Parcel #20, SD-West, Briar Chapel, pursuant to Section 9.2 of the Compact Communities Ordinance.
Introduction & Background:
The Chatham County CCO includes the following standards:
9.2 Perimeter Buffers
Perimeter buffers shall be utilized to minimize the impacts of each compact community on adjacent properties along the entire perimeter of the compact community. Table 9.2 lists the minimum buffer width allowable, depending on the proposed land use along the edge of the compact community and the existing land use in the adjacent property at any point along the perimeter.
Chatham County may allow a reduction in the perimeter buffer width required by this ordinance of up to fifty percent (50%) if it determines that the impact of the compact community is adequately mitigated by community design or topography. In addition, Chatham County may allow a reduction in the perimeter buffer from fifty-one percent (51%) up to one hundred percent (100%) after giving the adjoining landowners an opportunity to comment and Chatham County determines that the impact of the compact community is adequately mitigated by the community design or topography. A developer of a Compact Community may request of the Board of Commissioners such a waiver or reduction at any time.
Section 15. Waiver, "With the approval of the Board of Commissioners, the requirements of this ordinance may be adjusted, modified, reduced or waived based upon the absence of any reasonable relationship or nexus between the impact of the compact community development a...
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