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MEMORANDUM <br /> <br />TO: <br /> <br />FROM: <br /> <br />Cabarrus County Board of Commissioners <br /> <br />Jonathan Marshall, AICP and Sue G. Russell, AICP <br /> <br />DATE: <br /> <br />SUBJECT: <br /> <br />May 8, 1995 <br /> <br />Review of Cabarrus Station Area of T/~ Midland Area Plan <br /> <br />At your direction, we held a public meeting in the Cabarrus Station community <br />to re-evaluate part of the Midland Area Plan. The Commissioner's request, as we <br />understood it, was that we reconsider how, and what type, businesses are <br />permitted in the area in light of comments made at public hearings held on a <br />rezoning in that area. <br /> <br />The meeting was held on March 30, 1995, at 7:00 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall of <br />Bethel United Methodist Church. There were between 80 and 100 attendees and <br />we have since received more than 20 letters. <br /> <br />The discussion at the meeting centered on residents' goals for the future of their <br />community. A great deal of time was spent explaining what type of uses are <br />permitted in the MDR and LDR zoning districts that cover this area. There was <br />no clear consensus in the comments made at the meet4ng. Many people felt the <br />area is best suited for the rural residential development that characterizes it <br />today and that businesses, if allowed, should be small scale or home based. <br />Others felt a need to permit more commercial and industrial throughout the <br />area. The need for more nonresidential land was tied to the need to increase the <br />tax base to help pay for the Muddy Creek waste water treatment plant, the <br />prohibitive cost of nonresidential land on N.C. 24/27 and U.S. 601, to allow <br />residents to start businesses on proper~ they already own, and the basic belief <br />that property owners should ultimately decide what they want to do with their <br />own property. <br /> <br />The letters we received after the meeting clearly have a consensus. All of those <br />letters were from residents whose goals for the area are that it remain rural <br />residential and that intensive businesses and industries be located only on the <br />major thoroughfares like N.C. 24/27 and U.S. 601. There was also a clear theme <br />to the letters that residents rely on future land use plans and on zoning to give <br /> <br /> <br />