2. Agenda Adjustments

3. Minutes

Elry and Peggy Holloway will present to the Board of County Commissioners a request to rezone .66 acres southwest of Fountain Street and north of Ross Road, PIN #0841-11-76-4552; 598-1-7 (Tax Map) Request: R-20 (Residential 20 District) to R-8 (Residential 8 District) (F/J-B). The proposal is in conformance with the adopted small area plan and 2020 Plan. Staff recommends approval. The Zoning Committee of the Durham Planning Commission conducted a public hearing on November 14, 2000 and voted 7-0 to recommend approval.

Case Planner: Cassandre Haynesworth

The public hearing for this request was advertised on December 22 and December 29, 2000 in the Durham Herald-Sun.

Resource Person(s): Sheila Stains-Ramp, Planning Supervisor, and Norman Standerfer, Planning Director

County Manager's Recommendation: The Manager’s recommendation is that the Board receive the presentation and approve, if appropriate, based upon Board and public comments.

9. C.A.I. Group, Ltd. Applicant (Rezoning Case P99-56)

C.A.I. Group, Ltd. will present to the Board of County Commissioners a request to rezone 2.849 acres located on the east side of Farrington Road, north of NC 54, between Farrington and I-40 (TM 486-5-1E, NCDOT r/w being bought; third piece without TM identification). Request: R-20 to OI-2 (D); F/J-B, MTC. The proposal is in conformance with the adopted small area plan and 2020 Plan. Staff recommends approval. The Zoning Committee of the Durham Planning Commission conducted a public hearing on September 12, 2000 and voted 0-7 to recommend denial.

Case Planner: Sheila Stains-Ramp

The public hearing for this request was advertised on December 22 and 29, 2000 in the Durham Herald-Sun.

Resource Person(s): Sheila Stains-Ramp, Planning Supervisor, and Norman Standerfer, Planning Director

County Manager's Recommendation: The Manager’s recommendation is that the Board receive the presentation and approve, if appropriate, based on Board and public comment.

10. Establishment of a County Policy Concerning Amendments to Adopted Landuse Plans

The Planning Committee of the Durham Planning Commission and the members of the JCCPC adopted a resolution proposing that rezoning requests conform to adopted plans, by combining the rezoning applications with a process for amending land use plans. The process recommended by the JCCPC is for quarterly plan amendments. Staff is recommending approval of the Plan amendment resolution and a process to amend plans concurrently with companion rezoning applications when a rezoning is in conflict with the Plan.

Resource Person(s): Norm Standerfer, Director of City/County Planning, Bonnie Estes, Planning Supervisor

County Manager's Recommendation: The Manager’s recommendation is that the Board receive the staff presentation, discuss the policy implications of this item, and approve, if appropriate, based upon staff recommendation and Board comment.

11. Adequate Public Facilities Recommendations

The Joint City-County Planning Committee created the Adequate Public Facilities Task Force to learn about adequate public facility requirements and their applicability to Durham. The Task Force is composed of JCCPC members as well as representatives from development, environmental, and neighborhood interests. The Task Force reviewed background information about existing plans for facility expansion and other jurisdictions’ experience with adequate public facilities requirements. In October, the Task Force received a report from the Planning Director and embraced his recommendations in their recommendation to the two Governing Boards. The Joint City-County Planning Committee made minor modifications in the Task Force recommendations.

The Planning Staff recommends that the County Board of Commissioners take the following actions:
 

1. Receive the report and recommendations from the Planning Director, the APF Task Force, and the JCCPC;
2. Consider and adopt the proposed policy and procedures for amending adopted land use plans (a separate agenda item will come to the Board for implementation); and
3. Consider and adopt the "surrogate for adequacy" philosophy described in the report as the basis for considering and implementing an APF study and ordinance.

 

County Manager's Recommendation: The Manager’s recommendation is that the Board: 1) receive the report and recommendations from the Planning Director, the APF Task Force, and the JCCPC; 2) consider and adopt the proposed policy and procedures for amending adopted land use plans (a separate agenda item will come to the Board for implementation); and 3) consider and adopt the "surrogate for adequacy" philosophy described in the report as the basis for considering and implementing an APF study and ordinance.

12. Reservoir Buffer Text Amendment

Reservoir buffer requirements were added to watershed protection regulations in the early 1990s. The intent was to protect the quality of the water in water supply reservoirs by limiting development close to their edges. Land within 250 feet of the reservoir is to remain in natural undisturbed vegetation. It was assumed that all of the land within a reservoir’s buffer area would drain to the reservoir.

A local development consultant has brought to the Planning Department’s attention a problem with this assumption. There exists a small area of private land on the south side of the Little River Reservoir that is within the 250-foot reservoir buffer area; however it drains away from the reservoir. The area actually drains to the Little River at a point downstream of the dam. The land area is approximately 0.9 acres and is in the Treyburn development near Snow Hill Rd. and the dam access road. There is a logical inconsistency in this situation. The small area of land is restricted by the reservoir buffer requirement to protect water quality, but stormwater runoff from the land does not drain toward the Little River Reservoir. Application of the buffer requirement to this land does not make sense. The buffer requirement should be amended to make explicit that the requirement does not apply where the land does not drain toward the reservoir.

The Zoning Committee of the Durham Planning Commission conducted a public hearing and reviewed this proposed text amendment at its December 12, 2000 meeting. The Zoning Committee voted unanimously to recommend approval. The Planning Staff recommends that Durham adopt the amendment to the Durham Zoning Ordinance, Section 5.5.8, Stream Buffers and Reservoir Buffers.

Resource Person(s): Keith Luck, Planning Supervisor

County Manager's Recommendation: The Manager’s recommendation is that the Board adopt the amendment to the Durham Zoning Ordinance, Section 5.5.8, Stream Buffers and Reservoir Buffers.

13. Presentation of Durham County 2000-2001 Travel Reduction Plan

The Board of County Commissioners is requested to provide feedback and approve the Durham County 2000-2001 Travel Reduction Plan for submittal to Triangle Transit Authority. Article V of Chapter 24 of the Durham County Code of Ordinances establishes the Commute Trip Reduction Program and requires all major employers within Durham County—on an annual basis—to prepare and submit a travel reduction plan to the Lead Agency (i.e., Triangle Transit Authority). As stated in Sec. 24-118 of the ordinance, the travel reduction plan must contain the following criteria:

Resource Person(s): Wendell Davis, Deputy County Manager, Marcia Margotta, Senior Research/Policy Analyst

14. Board and Commission Appointments

Garry E. Umstead, Clerk to the Board, will distribute ballots to make appointments to the following boards and commissions: