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.