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Public Hearings on Land Use Ordinance Text and Map Amendments Relating to the WM-3 Zoning District
PURPOSE: The purpose of this agenda item is for the Board of Aldermen to receive public comment, to consider text amendments relating to the Watershed Manufacturing District (WM-3) and whether to rezone portions of six parcels along NC Hwy 54 West to WM-3.
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DEPARTMENT: Planning
CONTACT INFORMATION: Christina Moon - 919-918-7325, Patricia McGuire - 919-918-7327, Bob Hornik - 919-929-3905
INFORMATION: The Board of Aldermen submitted a request to Orange County to extend the Town's extraterritorial jurisdiction boundary (ETJ) slightly further north to include the entirety of five parcels of land along NC Hwy 54 West, known as 600, 610, 626, 630 NC Hwy 54 West and 1306 Hatch Road, and is scheduled to hold a public hearing to consider the matter on June 13th, as part of a separate agenda item. The Board of County Commissioners is scheduled to consider the matter on June 20th. Contingent upon Orange County's approval, the Town could initiate its zoning authority to zone the approximately 2.9 acres of land (currently in Orange County) to Watershed Manufacturing (WM-3) such that the entirety of each of the five lots, along with a short section of land used as a driveway for Camelia Forest Nursery, the 22.83-acre parcel located at 620 NC Highway 54 West, would be classified WM-3.
At the May 9, 2017 Board of Aldermen meeting, the Board set public hearings to consider amendments to the Land Use Ordinance (LUO) in two regards: a draft text amendment to clarify the description of the Watershed Manufacturing Zoning District (WM-3) and the extent to which it could be expanded (Attachment B), and a draft map amendment to rezone portions of the six parcels to WM-3, as described above, consistent with what was likely the original intent (Attachment D).
The Planning Board considered both items at its June 1, 2017 meeting. Comments from the Planning Board...
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