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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.