MINUTES
STATE OF NORTH
CAROLINA BOARD
OF COMMISSIONERS
COUNTY OF
HENDERSON APRIL
19, 2001
The Henderson County
Board of Commissioners met for a special called meeting at 7:00 p.m. in the
Cafeteria of the Glenn C. Marlow Elementary School in Mills River, North
Carolina.
Those present
were: Chairman Bill Moyer, Vice‑Chair
Marilyn Gordon, Commissioner Grady Hawkins, Commissioner Charles Messer, County
Manager David Nicholson.
Also present were
Planning Director Karen Smith and Assistant County Attorney Jennifer Jackson.
Absent was Clerk to
the Board Elizabeth W. Corn.
Chairman Bill Moyer
stated that this meeting is the last of the five public input sessions that the
Commissioners have held throughout the County on the issue of Open Use zoning
and thanked those citizens in attendance.
Chairman Moyer then stated that he thought he could give each person at
least five minutes to speak or ask questions.
The Board will welcome any written comments which will be distributed to
all Commissioners.
PUBLIC INPUT
1. Joe Pafford
‑ He and his wife have lived in Grimesdale for the past 5 years. The Board is not doing their job of
protecting the people. He is
disappointed on the dismissal of Jack Reed and Chuck McGrady. Every person that he has talked to about
them have indicated satisfaction with their performance.
Chairman Moyer
remind Mr. Pafford that the subject of discussion tonight was the Open Use
proposal.
Mr. Pafford said
that he does support Open Use regulation but doesn't think it is enough regulation.
The residential density in 1 mile should be reduced to 100 dwellings in that
area and certainly not be eliminated.
2. Jack Reed ‑ How is the County able to prohibit adult
establishments and hazardous/radioactive waste disposal facilities.
Bill Moyer stated
that adult establishments are only prohibited in Open Use. Jennifer Jackson
stated that they are allowed in the C‑4, Highway Commercial, and I‑2,
General Industrial, districts. Ms.
Jackson also discussed that hazardous and radioactive waste disposal facilities
are prohibitied in all areas of the County under the proposal but that the
State can preempt the County's regulation and grant permission to those
facilities to locate in Henderson County.
Mr. Reed stated that
the hours of operation for principal operation between 7 am and 11 pm seems too
permissive given other operations can occur in off hours. He doesn't want a Solid Waste Facility
without a separation requirement. Is concerned that there are no stated minimum
for separation for incinerators. Wants
1 mile separation from healthcare facilities for asphalt plants and
slaughtering plant. Mr. Reed then asked
when the deadline for submission of written comments was.
Chairman Moyer said
that written comments couldn't be considered after the May 15, 2001 public
hearing but that he was hoping that they would be in prior to the BOC's
worksessions next week.
Mr. Reed made the
comment that some of the standards looked arbitrary. Have we gone to other counties to get input on this type of zoning
Chairman Moyer said
that as far as we know there are no other counties that are doing something
substantially similar to this type of zoning. Other counties are actually
watching what Henderson County is doing.
3. Lance Siebel
‑ no comment
4. Carolyn Mason
‑ Very much interested in the
regulation. She is for land use
planning and would like to see many things much stricter, especially the
density standard. Some development is
hurting the subdivisions. She recognizes that our County needs progress but
wants to see it grow in a good, clean pattern.
Industry needs to be concentrated so that it doesn't effect
subdivisions. She lives in a good neighborhood with good neighbors and hates
what they have had to go through with the asphalt plant and wants to protect
the other subdivisions from those type uses.
5. Chuck Mason
‑ He has read the document very carefully and sees nothing in it that
anyone should seriously object to. Only
those people that want to put in a prohibited use should be really concerned. If you made an Industrial district you could
prohibit them in Open Use district. The
real teeth are the separation and density.
People that want to sell property to people that want to develop a
prohibited use are the ones concerned.
Wants the Board to remember that they should be guided by the greatest
good for the greatest number.
6. Polly Orr ‑ 47 Starlight Lane. She wants zoning and protection.
She doesn't think it goes far enough but if it's all that they can get
she will take it.
Chairman Moyer noted
that this is just a first step and that it will be followed up with study of
the growth areas and corridors. To do a
good zoning study takes time and Open Use is meant to provide a basic level of
protection while those studies are going on.
This Board is committed to doing it right so it will take some time.
7. Allen Smith
‑‑ These are his personal
comments not on behalf of the League of Property Owners. The definitions need
work. The trigger for chip mills is too
high (it allows 300 tons per day which is probably 30 truck loads a day without
regulations). They should be defined on a daily or monthly basis not on an
annual basis. The acreage is too high
for the trigger for amusement parks, it should be lowered. The trigger is too high for slaughtering
plants ‑ the number of animals killed each month is too high ‑
should be lowered. Need to add a
standard of neighbor notification ‑ Should have notification to all
residents within a mile radius or some other range ‑ more than just the notification
of adjacent owners.
Chairman Moyer asked
if there was any further public input session or questions and there being none
asked if there was a motion to adjourn.
Commissioner Gordon moved that the meeting be adjourned at approximately
7:45 p.m. All voted in favor and the motion carried.
ATTESTED BY:
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Elizabeth W.
Corn, Clerk to the Board William
L. Moyer, Chairman