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Vote on a request to approve the Chatham County Alcoholic Beverage Control Board for a general legislative rezoning on Parcel No. 11417 located on the Moncure Pittsboro Road from R-5 and R-1 Residential zoning to NB Neighborhood Business, being approximately 0.957 acres, Haw River Township.
ABSTRACT
Action Requested:
A request by the Chatham County Alcoholic Beverage Control Board for a general legislative rezoning on Parcel No. 11417 located on the Moncure Pittsboro Road from R-5 and R-1 Residential zoning to NB Neighborhood Business, being approximately 0.957 acres, Haw River Township.
Introduction & Background:
A legislative public hearing was held on February 20, 2017. Planning staff introduced the request and the applicant's attorney, Patrick Bradshaw, provided a presentation. No one signed up for public input.
The Planning Board discussed this item during their regularly scheduled meeting on March 7, 2017. Planning staff provided them with comments received from a resident in the community opposing the rezoning. It was noted the citizen was not an adjacent landowner but did live in the area. The opposition to the rezoning was specific to an ABC store. It was explained that the request was for a general use rezoning and the board had to consider all of the uses that are allowed in the Neighborhood Business district. The board also discussed that two parcels were rezoned to the same designation in 2016 and this was adjacent to that property.
Discussion & Analysis:
The property under consideration for rezoning is currently zoned R-5 and R-1, Residential with a majority of the property zoned R-5. The allowed uses in these districts are residential and the minimum lot sizes are one dwelling unit per five acres average, with no lot smaller than three acres, in the R-5 district and one dwelling unit per 40,000 square feet in the R-1 district. The requested zoning of Neighborhood Business (NB) is "meant to serve a small retail market, roughly equivalent...
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