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HomeMy WebLinkAboutC.054.93010_0314 (2)IREDELL COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS REGULAR MINUTES JANUARY 2.2001 The Iredell County Board of Commissioners met in Regular Session on Tuesday, January 2, 2001, at 7:00 p.m., in the Iredell County Government Center (Commissioners' Meeting Room), 200 South Center Street, Statesville, NC 28677. Present: Chairman Sara Haire Tice Vice Chairman Steve D. Johnson Tommy E. Bowles Karen B. Ray R. Godfrey Williams Staff Present: County Manager Joel Mashburn, County Attorney Bill Pope, Planning Supervisor Ron Smith, and Clerk to the Board Jean Moore. CALL TO ORDER by Chairman Tice INVOCATION by Commissioner Johnson PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE PUBLIC HEARINGS Chairman Tice declared the meeting to be in a public hearing. CONSIDERATION OF THE EXIT 42 FUTURE LAND USE STUDY: Planning Supervisor Ron Smith said the Town of Troutman was requesting that the Iredell County Land Use Plan be amended by including the proposed recommendations of the Exit 42 Future Land Use Study. He said the proposed amendments, if adopted, would bring a higher level of specificity to land use designations in the area while also recommending site specific amenities for new development. Smith said the Exit 42 plan had been developed on a parcel -to -parcel basis. He emphasized that no rezonings were taking place. Mr. Smith said the plan was unanimously rejected by the Iredell County Planning Board on December 6, 2000. Troutman Town Mayor Elbert Richardson said three years ago, the municipality began seeing unrestricted growth in the county. He said the Troutman officials became proactive and borrowed $900,000 from a lending institution and $250,000 from Iredell County to extend water and sewer lines to Exit 42. Richardson said a joint county/town/citizen committee was created to prepare a Hwy. 21/Exit 42 Land Use Plan. He said the second draft of the plan was approved by the Troutman Planning Board; however, the Troutman Town Board of Aldermen felt the plan compromised the board's original intent by allowing approximately 500 acres to be designated for interchange and general commercial -type development. The mayor said the Exit 42 plan was a composite of the thoughts of the committee, the Troutman Planning Board, the Troutman Board of Aldermen, and the Iredell County Planning Department, Troutman Town Administrator A J Barghothi said the plan included fourdifferent types ofdevelopment. He said these were residential, commercial, industrial (low impact) and open space. Barghothi said the open space could be accomplished by (1) the encouragement of clustering (particularly in the protected watershed areas), (2) the mandating of dedicated open space in future subdivisions/developments and encouraging greenways as a means of connecting neighborhoods to nonresidential uses. In addition, Barghothi said governments should consider adopting regulations pertaining to tree preservation. Barghothi said governing bodies should consider developing landscaping programs for all new uses, not existing uses, along U.S. Hwy. 21. Mr. Barghothi said there were eight specific types of land use categories in the plan. He said they were: (1) Low to Medium Density Residential (2) Medium Density Residential (3) Medium to High Density Residential (4) Residential/Transitional Office (5) Office Institutional (6) Neighborhood Retail (7) Interchange Commercial and (8) Light Industrial.