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February 27, 1996
There was a meeting held at 10 : 00 a.m. , on Tuesday,
February 27 , 1996, of the Randolph County Planning Board, in
the County Manager ' s Conference Room, County Office
Building, 725 McDowell Road, Asheboro, North Carolina. The
following members were present: Charles Adams, Chairman;
Aweilda Williams, Vice Chairman; Jim Routh; Bill Dorsett;
Maxton McDowell; Lynden Craven; and Phil Brower.
Planning Director Hal Johnson explained to the Board
that this meeting would be for reviewing the proposed zoning
ordinance changes and that they would not be expected to
make any decisions today. Johnson explained that he did not
have nor know all the answers to the problems with land
development in the County. Johnson said that he did have
20+ years experience in Randolph County Land Planning and
during this time, has seen Randolph County go through an
evolution in development. Johnson said that the County
first experienced Zoo zoning, then Trinity Township zoning,
and in ' 87 Countywide zoning. Johnson said that there was
no real planning used in development of many previous
ordinances. Johnson said in 1986 the County put in a mobile
home park ordinance to begin getting a handle on some
development while trying to zone the northern townships .
During this time, proposed development of a mobile home park
in the Coleridge Township sparked interest in zoning the
southern townships . Coleridge residents were asking the
County why they were putting regulations in place to protect
the northern townships and not the southern townships. Then
the County decided to propose Countywide zoning. Johnson
said the regulations that were established during this time
were basically zoning, there was no real long term planning
established. Johnson described one of the most monumental
evolutions in land development regulations (occurred in
September 1988) as being totally reactionary. Johnson said
that was to bring major subdivision developments into the
zoning arena. This change required developers to zone
property for the type of housing prior to subdivision
approval. Johnson said that the issue we need to deal with
now is how development should be directed. Johnson told the
Board that he was not sitting there as a Planning Director
telling the Board that he had all the answers . The major
issue needing to be dealt with is major residential
subdivision development. Johnson said he would like to set
up a subcommittee to take this proposed zoning ordinance and
go through it page by page and once a consensus has been
made in this subcommittee bring the proposed zoning
ordinance to the full Planning Board for review. Johnson
said that he wanted to stress the fact that he believed that
this would be the only opportunity Randolph County would
have to decide what Randolph County is going to become.
Growth and change were continuing at a high pace.
Johnson reviewed the map developed as the proposed
Growth Management Plan (GMP) for Randolph County. Johnson
described the Rural Conservation Areas as low density
sections of Randolph County where development patterns have
not yet been established. The Secondary Growth Areas are
areas where mainly residential growth patterns have been
established and the Primary Growth Areas are areas of higher
density residential, commercial, and industrial patterns .
Johnson said that as the Planning Director he is presenting
this Board with the "optimum" level of guidelines. These
regulations could be scaled back if necessary, but all
options (of regulations) are being presented at this time.
Johnson said that if we were starting with the very minimum,
basic regulations there would be no where to go, because if
those type of regulations are scaled back, then you are left
with nothing. Johnson said once this Board can reach a
consensus of regulations they are comfortable with then we
can bring in developers, citizens, etc. to reach a consensus
with the Randolph County community.
Johnson said that he and his staff has come up with
changes to the originally proposed ordinance to try to
answer concerns voiced by this Board during the last
"working session" . Johnson discussed some of the changes
made to the proposed Article 4 :
**changed the proposal to not rezoning all the property
within the RC Growth Area (of the GMP) . This zoning
district is now being proposed as an overlay zoning
district that would be required for major subdivision
development.
**this change (within the RC Growth Area as explained above)
would also allow minor subdivision to have a minimum lot
size of 40 , 000 sq. ft. and major subdivision lot sizes would
be a minimum of 80 , 000 sq. ft.
**the RC Zoning Overlay District will also restrict the
number of lots fronting on an existing State Maintained
road.
Johnson discussed some of the changes made to the proposed
Article 5 :
**the change would allow Class C manufactured homes to be
permitted in a RM Zoning District. (They still would not be
allowed within major subdivisions within that zoning
district) .
**addition of Tire Storage Regulations within commercial
districts .
There was a consensus of the Board to have a
sub-committee that would study the proposed zoning
regulations .
The meeting adjourned at 11 : 17 a.m.
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