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Orange County · Planning Board
Wednesday, April 9, 2025

Regular meeting RezoningStormwater and floodingSubdivision and site plansHousing and affordabilityLand conversion and large developmentParks and recreationSchools and education

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What was decided

  1. Approved 3Approval of Minutes Both sets approved unanimously

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What's on this agenda

The Orange County Planning Board recommended three land use cases to the commissioners on 9 April 2025, all headed to a 3 June public hearing. The county is rezoning its own Cedar Ridge High School site, an applicant wants to put a self-storage business on 11 acres off NC 57 at Rougemont, and a 38-lot subdivision on Dairyland Road came back for its preliminary plat.

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Meeting recap

What happened, drawn from the records published after the meeting. Minutes

All three passed. The Cedar Ridge High School rezoning covers about 69.58 acres at 1125 New Grady Brown School Road and moves the site from rural residential to a non-residential conditional district; the board recommended it unanimously.

The self-storage case carves about 11.22 acres out of an 80.52-acre tract northwest of NC 57, to be subdivided after approval. The site plan shows three phases and 41 storage buildings, with three buildings including an office in phase one. Parcels immediately east were rezoned the same way in 2012 and 2021 and already hold a self-storage business. A member moved to amend condition 15 to require all landscaping to come from the county's preferred plant list, and the applicant agreed. The statement of consistency passed 10-1. Another member pressed on how a pervious surface restriction tied to the 11 acres would still be known in twenty years; staff said it is a recorded document, found at the Register of Deeds.

Eden View Acres is a 38-lot subdivision on about 190.6 acres at 4801 and 4901 Dairyland Road, in the Cane Creek protected watershed. The concept plan was approved by the commissioners on 2 May 2023. Average lot size is 2.75 acres over four phases, with 40 percent open space, 76.27 acres, against a 33 percent minimum for the conservation cluster option. Primary open space of 25.29 acres covers streams and their buffers. The preliminary plat was recommended unanimously.

How the votes went

Four votes. The minutes, the Cedar Ridge rezoning and the Eden View Acres plat passed unanimously. The NC 57 self-storage statement of consistency passed 10-1.

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Agenda items (7)

Procedural · 3Discussion item · 3Minutes approval · 1
  1. 1 Call to Order and Roll Call
    Procedural
  2. 2 Service Appreciation for Outgoing Member and Former Chair
    Procedural
  3. 3 Approval of Minutes
    Minutes approval
    Both sets approved unanimously
  4. 7 Zoning Atlas Amendment - Cedar Ridge High School
    Discussion item RezoningSchools and education
    A county-initiated rezoning of about 69.58 acres holding Cedar Ridge High School, from R-1 rural residential to NR-CD non-residential conditional district.
    Recommended unanimously
    • 1125 New Grady Brown School Rd · no matching parcel on file
    • Pin 9863-28-1858 · Orange County · assessed $67,092,000
  5. 8 Zoning Atlas Amendment - 9900 NC 57, Rougemont
    Discussion item RezoningStormwater and floodingSubdivision and site plans
    An applicant-initiated rezoning of about 11.22 acres out of an 80.52-acre tract, from agricultural residential to the NC 57 Speedway Area rural economic development conditional district, for a self-storage business. The site plan shows 41 storage buildings in three phases, beginning with three buildings and an office. Parcels to the east were rezoned the same way in 2012 and 2021 and hold an existing self-storage business.
    Recommended 10-1, with condition 15 amended to require landscaping from the county's preferred plant list
  6. 9 Major Subdivision Preliminary Plat - Eden View Acres
    Discussion item Housing and affordabilityLand conversion and large developmentParks and recreationStormwater and floodingSubdivision and site plans
    A 38-lot subdivision on about 190.6 acres north of Dairyland Road and east of Orange Grove Road, inside the Cane Creek protected watershed. Average lot size 2.75 acres over four phases, with 40 percent open space at 76.27 acres against a 33 percent minimum. The concept plan was approved by the commissioners on 2 May 2023.
    Recommended unanimously
    • 4801 Dairyland Rd · no matching parcel on file
    • 4901 Dairyland Rd · no matching parcel on file
    • Pin 9841-52-7281 · Snipes Daniel E Etal · assessed $160,962
    • Pin 9840-79-5091 · Snipes Elizabeth C · assessed $107,300
  7. 11 Adjournment
    Procedural
    Approved unanimously

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