Proposed October 11 2022 Minutes

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Planning and Zoning Commission Minutes September 13, 2022 until the appeal period expires on the Shelly case. If he lets it go, which Mr. Koch is hoping he will, that will finally be the end of that case. No Directors Report Ms. Susie Morris, Planning and Zoning Manager addressed the Board stating that she has two things for this evening. One was actually included in the Board packet, that is the proposed Planning and Zoning Commission realignment. What Staff is proposing is to use a different map from what is currently being used. There have been so many annexations that our northwest area, a lot of it is now Kannapolis. So, it is pretty difficult to find people there. In the Central Area, there have been a lot of annexations down toward that area. The land and parcels that we had are dwindling. What we are going to propose to the Board of Commissioners, would be that the proposed member assignments better align with the annexation agreements that are in place, and also the proposed utility service areas. What that would mean for this Board, would be that the Central Area Plan representative would be removed and that would not be replaced because it is part of the Concord area. The Mount Pleasant area that you see would be a new area. We happen to have a current member that could fill that slot, and that would be Mr. Dagenhart. He would represent Mount Pleasant. The Northwest area position is currently vacant and that would not be replaced, that would become part of the Kannapolis area. We currently have two at-large members, the new at-large members would be at three. We would remove the two positions (Central Area and Northwest Area). There would be an at-large member position, a new one. That brings the actual area representatives to a total of nine, which is what we currently have and then there would be three at-large alternate positions. Hopefully, this will open up some additional opportunities for us to solicit members and then would also allow for better representation in those planning areas. We have been talking about this for a couple of years. Mount Pleasant has adopted their own land use plan. We would like to co-adopt that plan and this would correspond to that area. The yellow is the Eastern Area. Kannapolis has their own plan, and she thinks it was a 2015 plan and she does not know if they are updating that. she thinks was a 2035 plan. We have the co-adopted one with Harrisburg. The Town of Midland, we have a plan there, but they also co-adopted their own plan which is a 2030 plan. These boundaries would better reflect the land use plan areas, because essentially, with Concord, Kannapolis and Harrisburg, anything that is in their utility service boundary eventually will be in their municipal limits. 5