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Vote on a legislative request to approve by the Vickers Bennett Group LLC for a Conditional District Rezoning from R-1 Residential to CD-CCO Compact Community being approximately 101.8 acres located off US 15-501 between Vicker's Rd and Jack Bennett roads, Williams Township.
ABSTRACT
Action Requested:
Vote on a legislative request to approve by the Vickers Bennett Group LLC for a Conditional District Rezoning from R-1 Residential to CD-CCO Compact Community being approximately 101.8 acres located off US 15-501 between Vicker's Rd and Jack Bennett roads, Williams Township.
Introduction & Background:
A legislative public hearing was held on August 16, 2021. Planning staff exercised their option for a month postponement to review information obtained at the public hearing and any subsequent information that has been requested and received. Planning staff and Commissioners have received fairly equal responses for support of the development as they've received recommendations for denial.
The Planning Board previously recommended approval of a map and text amendment to the Compact Community Ordinance to allow the integration all this project's property into the area that is eligible for a compact community rezoning to be submitted. This area does fall within the Compact Residential node of the Chatham County Comprehensive Land Use Plan. Those maps are shown below for reference.
Map above: Future Land Use and Conservation Plan Map from Plan Chatham
Map above: Compact Community Map as currently adopted in the Compact Communities Ordinance
Map above: Proposed addition to the Compact Community Map
The Compact Communities Ordinance (CCO) was adopted in 2004 to address Briar Chapel and certain sections are outdated based on other regulations that have been adopted in the intervening years. For example, the stormwater and riparian buffer provisions of the CCO are no longer applicable because of other ordinances that have been adopted or amended since 2004 that...
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