HomeMy WebLinkAboutC.054.93011_1252 (2)and to accommodate neighborhood -oriented businesses at strategic and well-
planned locations along the corridor." Such locations were identified as being
further northeast in the Blume and Stutts Road areas; since the Plan's adoption
however, the County amended it to include a "Low Intensity Office" node just
south of McKendree Road and some subsequent rezoning occurred here in 2004.
This was a limited area and was not envisioned to be a continued pattern outside
that area. For all the foregoing reasons, staff feels that continued consideration of
piecemeal rezonings along the Brawley School Road would defeat the residential
objectives of the Land Use Plan in this area. In short, this portion of the corridor
was not envisioned to transition into a strip -commercial area. Staff therefore
would recommend against this request.
PLANNING BOARD ACTION: On June 7, 2006 the Planning Board voted 8-2
to recommend denial of this request.
Warren said the planning board and staff sympathized with the applicant, and the
decision to deny the request had been difficult. He said the staff wanted to watch for piece meal
rezonings on the Brawley School Road due to the road improvements.
Dawn Patrick, owner/applicant, distributed photographs of the site and stated new
information had been received since the planning board meeting. She said the photos illustrated
how much road frontage would be taken due to the road widening. Patrick said property near her
consisted of a wooded area with a school behind it, a vacant lot, a homeowner occupation
business site (sells tin and goats), and another homeowner occupation business (sells pine straw,
Christmas trees, and tomatoes). She said homeowner occupations were abundant from Stutts
Road to the Pointe entrance, and it wasn't as residential as one would expect. Ms. Patrick said
the road project wouldn't really affect the property owners north of Brawley School Road, but
their tax values had increased to $300,000 an acre. She said her property, behind Stutts Road,
was a new neighborhood with homes costing $500,000 to $700,000.00, and these weren't even
on the lake.
Patrick said Noah McArthur, with the North Carolina Department of Transportation
(NCDOT), recently looked at her property in terns of the road project. She said a measurement
had been taken from her front steps to the road, and it was 70 feet. Patrick said the road would
eventually be widened from two lanes to four lanes with a median that would disallow left turns
into, or out, of her property. Additionally she said trees would be planted, along with bicycle
lanes and sidewalks. She said all of this would be placed on her property, which included the
vacant lot next door. Patrick said also, a 6 -foot ditch would be on her front property, and 26 feet
of side property (full length) would be used for a drainage ditch. She said the NCDOT
representative had also told her that all of the work would be done at night. Patrick said it
seemed unfair to apply a Land Use Plan to her request. She said the 5,000 homeowners south of
Stutts needed the widening, but some property owners would be more adversely affected than
others.
Olivia Patrick said the road was already scary, and it would be even scarier when it was
widened into her mother's property. She requested the board members to really consider the
request.
Cole Crissup said the highway was already scary, especially when he walked his dog. He
said to imagine it being any closer was unimaginable. He, too, requested the board members to
consider the request.
Dawn Patrick said her property was in a watershed, and due to this, the road pavement
would have to be graded down in eight -foot increments. She said her front yard would have to
be cemented so the water could be pushed to the other side (overflow would come down on left
side).
Commissioner Johnson said he was sympathetic to the fact that some property owners
would suffer disproportionately due to the road widening; but he was finding it difficult to
understand how the rezoning would ameliorate the road construction project.