Planning Board - Regular Meeting

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Welcome everyone to the planning committee meeting on August 18, 2026. I open this meeting to make an absentee. Mr. Hufine, Mr. Panis, Mr. Dean Wats, Mr. Uden, Mr. K. Patrick, and Mr. Bersa. Thank you all. And I ask everyone to stand up to declare the availability

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Thank you. Dewan Perencanaan dan Zonasi Kota Graham adalah dewan penasihat bagi Dewan Kota Graham. Dewan ini mempertimbangkan dan memberikan rekomendasi kepada Dewan Kota terkait permohonan perubahan penetapan zonasi dan semacamnya. Dewan Kota adalah penentu akhir atas persetujuan atau penolakan. Kenapa dilakukan sesuai dengan agenda tertulis yang telah dipublikasikan? Individu yang ingin berbicara mengenai permintaan lainnya akan dipertimbangkan, akan diberi kesempatan selama periode komentar publik untuk setiap agenda. Mohon tunjukkan keinginan Anda untuk berbicara dengan mengangkat tangan dan moderator rapat, biasanya ketua dewan atau wakil ketua jika ketua berhalangan, akan mempersilahkan Anda. Silahkan maju ke podium, sebutkan nama, alamat, dan sampaikan komentar Anda. Batas waktu untuk berkomentar adalah 3 menit. but can be extended by the moderator to give room for questions from the committee. Please be polite and polite in all comments and answers to questions. The moderator will give a signal when someone runs out of time and will call the next commentator. If someone does not respect the time limit, speaking from the audience seat without permission from the moderator, or not polite to the committee, they can be removed from the meeting After the public comment period is closed by the moderator, further comments from the audience will be considered not in accordance with the rules and individuals who do not respect this can be released. On this occasion, I want everyone who carries a phone to check it and make sure the phone is in a state of dead or unconscious. Have everyone seen the resolution on July 21? Are there any changes that need to be added or made? If not, I will accept the motion.

Mr. Chairman, I would like to make a motion to approve the resolution. Second.

All agree.

Is there anyone who disagrees? Okay, Mr. Bakli, let's continue to number 6A. Please, sir.

Okay sir. So the first one we have is a 73R area in 1010 East Hardin Street. The applicant wants to change this property zoning from the low density housing district R18 to a B2 commercial for the use of the house that is in the property for commercial use. The specific commercial use is truck and trailer rental business type U-Haul. The land is currently included in the category of commercial corridor land use that supports commercial growth from strategic clusters in Corridor, Jalan Raya, NC54, and NC87. The use of land around the property is the installation of wastewater treatment, empty land, single-family homes, and churches. Here, you can see the zoning map that shows the zoning of the property and the zoning next to it, as well as the front-end land use map that shows that this land is located in a commercial corridor district as previously stated. Regarding the recommendation of the staff, do you want me to convey it now or later after the request is forwarded?

I will listen to the request first. And how many people here want to talk about this point tonight? I know Mr. Brown is here.

Okay.

I will listen to the request. Mr. Brown.

My name is Dewi Brown. I live in Graham for the rest of my life. I paid more than $60,000 years ago for local taxes and city taxes. I bought a lot of property around here and cleaned it. I bought this private property in 1528, about two years ago, and I cleaned it for one and a half years before I tried to do anything. This old house window is broken, the plants are crumbling to cover it. They even found people who died like we talked about earlier, behind this place, about 10 or 15 years ago, and maybe more than five years since someone lived there. According to when they found Priya, she died. No one lived there at that time. At least 10 years. But I don't know much about it. I heard and read it in the Koran. I don't have much to say about all that happened. I do, I clean and try to do the best for the community. I bought the old car house garden right up there, and it was a bad impression when I bought it. And I renovated every car house. They should be moved, but Alie-Alie moved it, I renovated it. And now there are people who live there. There are people who I can try to help. I don't try to force them. There aren't many places they can rent. Now the price is Rp. 4,000 to around Rp. 8,000 per month. And I rarely have difficulty in providing the property. My problem is that they destroy my property. And the house down there, I don't know what else to say. We have cleaned it. I used a sander to clean it and cut down the trees. And right now, a woman from U-Haul wants to open a business there, and they are trying to do it now. But, I can't talk much about the payment now because there are two or three checks in my pocket that I can't withdraw. So I hope the situation will get better. But no matter what, I'm open to questions. I think I already have access to the city water there. I have submitted it and paid twice the price for it, 63 or 400. I have to install septic tanks because the city waste pipeline is not available. And when I bought the property, there was no traffic or anything in the property. But the city of Graham has a high-pressure waste line that crosses it from the direction of Governor Scott and passes through the church, but not on the church floor. It's on my side, but I have to ask Landmark to redo all the documents. There are three fields of land that have to be combined into one. And he did it, he also included the right of way for the waste channel of the city that was there, which was not there when I bought it. But anyway, it's done now. And I think I'm open for questions.

Mr. Brown, is the U-Haul business the only business that will be run there? Is that the only business? Yes, that's right.

In other words, it's only one business. Only one business? Yes. Okay, correct.

Mr. Trama, do you have any questions?

Yes, sir.

But for Jonathan, can you show the usage table allowed for Zone B2?

Business U-Haul that will operate from that location.

Will Aquacapes business also operate from that location?

Yes, you know, I don't know much about the two of them. I know they used to be in that corner where SIDS is building. SPBU is now in the corner of Jalan 54 and Jim Miner Road. That's where they are. You're right, but I don't know how much. There are a lot of land works that they do. They don't have a lot of equipment there to be carried out, honestly, to do planting grass or digging holes or anything in this landscape business. But once again, honestly, I can't answer it. As far as I know, I received a check from a woman there and I had to hold back a few checks from her. But the only thing that makes me confused is that if it is not agreed for commercial, I can sell the house more for rent. But I prefer to make it commercial.

I understand. But you only have one client for the U-Haul business. You only have one client for the U-Haul business.

And he asked to join me. But he can't speak clearly, honestly. And I don't really want him to come here and I can speak better than him. I don't mean that. I just want to check the list of users when we're done listening to Mr. Brown and other members of the delegation.

Thank you, Mr. Benes.

Do you have anything to add? Mr. Brown, just to clarify something, just for your knowledge, I think, especially as part of what they show on the screen is a list of all the uses that can be done for the property if the zone is changed, it will become Part of our decision-making is to remember the fact that if the e-business fails and we have changed the zone, other businesses, what can go in there? If you understand what I mean. Yes, sir. I understand that. So, with the rule of gravity, it is quite broad regarding the use of the request, the zoning. I just want to make sure that, for example, There is a church there and they said they would place a tattoo studio if the zone allows it. Do you understand what I mean? So I want you to be careful before doing a re-zonation on what ... maybe ... APEC afterwards. Do you mean the limitation? Limitation on that property? Oh no, anything that will be allowed on that property. after being re-zoned, if that is agreed. That's all I have at this time.

My question is in line with Mr. Ben's question about the possibility of consequences that are not desired in the property. Besides that, I have no more questions.

I think it continues the point that if we do a re-zoning to B2, as you mentioned, to rent it to the tenant as a residential property, it will also have an impact. So just to make sure that it is also clear that if we do a re-zoning to B2, having a residential tenant will be difficult.

So you can't ask anyone to stay there? Not only that, I can't hear it either. Good.

If we do a remodeling to B2 today, and you say that you might get more money if you rent it to the residential tenant, you won't be able to do that if we do a remodeling to B2 today. Allow me to clarify for a moment. The rent for the family is not allowed. Isn't it okay? In that district. Yes, I understand that, ma'am. And to clarify, I think the first question that was asked, we have, make sure I understand, we have one tenant with two businesses running aquascape, and then they will also rent U-Haul.

I didn't say it wouldn't happen, right? Because I didn't know. But oh, maybe it could happen. But I have about 25 houses. And from the gas house, where Jalan Raya Lintas Negara is located, all the way down. Not a dog place, where they repair dogs, but all the way to Lampu, then Lintas. All blocks back to Gilbert Street, and back to Gilbert Street, to Seragam there, I have everything. And if you can see my past, Everything is decent, clean, and all that I have done is transparent there.

My question has been answered by the first question about having two businesses there. Other than that, I don't have any questions. Thank you, Mr. Brand. Thank you. Thank you.

Are there any other people here who would like to talk about this? Please mention your name and address.

Yes, sir. My name is Dewi Brown. I am the third. This is my father and I live at 6701 South NZ 49 in Burlington. But I was raised in 1015 East Hardin Street, right in Graham.

Just to clarify, is it a business, mainly aquacapes, that supplies trucks? This truck I'm pretty sure that's how it is. American Aquacapes is a small fish pond business.

They go out of the location to do their jobs, and they want to maintain the business of renting their wheelhole trucks in that location. Is that clear?

There is a question for the third speaker from Syakapun.

But thank you for your attention.

I will ask one more time. Are there any other people here who want to talk or ask questions about this matter? I don't see anyone.

Close public comment session.

I request a motion to close public comment session.

I agree.

Okay, let's discuss this.

It seems that U-Haul is a store situation in a store that we usually found in SBBU or other types of business. So that part has been handled. So maybe we have to check the use that is appropriate in E2 for plant centers, outdoor storage, and maybe joint business development. Let's make sure we discuss, Mr. Brown. as long as they are here. Nona Kurpatri has ensured for single-family homes that if we have to return it to the owner of the house, it is allowed in B2A. So let's check each of the points very carefully so that there is an understanding.

Plant center.

Yes, a plant center, but there is a garden, but I can't see it.

You have a plant center here that is allowed in B2A. We also have retail services with the storage of plant equipment outside the room that is also allowed in B2A.

Can you show the house of the single family? Yes, sir. Right here.

The place where the single family is separated is allowed in B2 and B3.

And the joint business development will be at the bottom of that section. We will check it again in the UBD.

It will depend on whether it is light or heavy. And my understanding to determine whether it is light or heavy UBD, they need to submit a kind of report on the impact analysis. Then, what you need to get a transportation engineer, I think, to prove how many journeys will be achieved by this business later. So you must need a concrete picture of what you will actually build here. I suspect that this does not necessarily meet the requirements of the UBD, because in my opinion, when we talk about the UBD, we think more in line with the shopping center, or the multi-use in structural understanding. I think, where there will be a large parking space, some of which have a major use, and maybe a multi-use for something smaller, that makes sense.

But we read it correctly, there is the letter S in the column for B2.

B2, so if it's heavy, it depends on what we need to know, if it's heavy according to the special use permit I know Zonasi actually has nothing to do with the overlay requirements where the location and development plan will

In the end, he fell for it, but I don't know if it's right now to make Mr. Brown aware of that, or the city planning staff already aware.

So assuming he doesn't know, and I'm not sure how many staff have talked to you about this, at least not from my side, but until now, the reason for zoning and changes in the implementation of use that are suggested here, if it is the rental of trucks and utility trailers, the only thing he needs to do is to make a landscape plan for Kami Tinjau. But if he doesn't develop the location besides that, he doesn't do anything with parking, he doesn't build a new building there, then it won't be considered as a development of commercial location plan. If he only applies new use and doesn't change the building, doesn't do anything with parking, then what needs to be done is landscape plan.

And finally, if there is something that we can think of that is near the church. Riverside that is allowed in B2 that may have a distance to the church. In my opinion, as long as Mr. Brown has a clear understanding of the city planning staff about what will eventually be required for the property.

I think you have discussed all the key points there, everything he asked for. And in my opinion, it has fulfilled the 2035 plan. And I don't have any questions.

Mr. Buten. I really don't have any questions or other questions at this time.

Thank you.

I don't have any more questions, sir.

No more questions? All right.

I will receive a motion.

I would like to propose a motion on the basis of the Comprehensive Graham Plan 2035 and the Regulations for the Development of the City of Graham. The use of the zoning as stated is consistent with the current use of land for the purpose of the overall location of the structure in the coupling. Second, the re-designation of this property will be consistent with the type of commercial corridor use and supports the policy of 2.1.1.1 and 2.3.1.1 as outlined by the Comprehensive Plan of Graham 2035. I would like to urge you to agree with this motion. All agree.

Is there anything difficult? Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Brun. Good luck.

Thank you.

Alright. So, the next agenda for today is the request for re-zoning. This property is in the area of 0.6 hectares of the 4.1 hectares area of East Moore Street, Dekeng. This property is an interesting case. This front part of the property is included in the Hamparan District, Jalan Raya 87. Because of some complications over the years with land sale and how they are divided, this front part of the property used to be a separate sale and when the Hamparan District was implemented, it was set up for that sale. Over the years, this land has been divided, but the application of the demolition district remains. That's why you see the demolition in the front page here. So they just ask to remove the demolition district from this property. They want to maintain the B2 commercial zone that is its basis and do not make any changes to it. The land at this time is included in the category of use of residential land on the outskirts of the city that supports small professional offices and environmental centers that are shown. And the use of this property is around Serba Ada offices, residential buildings, and empty land.

My name is Angela Hall. The address is 128 Eastmore Street in Graham. To give an image of this place, we want to use it as a financial planning firm. I have a small boutique that is currently located in Burlington and has been established since 2015. We did rebranding in 2021 with the current name and have placed it in our customs location until now. So we bought this property with the understanding that the zone is B2 for small business, for small business. We have three full-time employees. We have one full-time employee with a very flexible working hours and one employee who works from a distance. Kami ingin mengubah jalan masuk dan area parkir agar lebih memadai untuk kantor kami. Lalu lintas di tempat kami rendah. Hanya karyawan dan biasanya satu klien pada satu waktu, maksimal dua sampai tiga klien sehari. Kami memilih lokasi ini karena strategis bagi basis klien saya. Saya sudah berada di Elements County sejak memulai industri ini di akhir tahun 90. Saya ingin menjadikan Geraham sebagai lokasi kantor karena lokasinya strategis dan saya juga warga Geraham dari tahun 2004 hingga Juli tahun lalu. Saya pindah ke daerah kabupaten karena ingin membeli tanah. Kerja saya ada di sini. Teman dan keluarga saya juga di sini. Sekali lagi, saya suka daerah ini dan disinilah saya ingin mendirikan kantor saya. Saya punya karyawan yang menangani urusan administratif di belakang layar karena saya mengelola firma Purnawaktu. Jadi jika diperbolehkan, saya ingin dia menjelaskan apa yang sedang kami rencanakan dan apa tujuan kami. Apakah boleh?

My name is Justin Kessler and I am here related to Ismore Street. We started to consider the parking area in the front. The location is in extraterritorial jurisdiction. And the house was built in 1995. It has a septic system that basically blocks all the back of the property. So what we have is only the front. And when we contacted someone to come and offer an offer for the arrangement of the front part and the installation of the curriculum, they suggested that we contact the planning committee, which I then did. I have tried. I have talked to Cameron and that is my way to get to this point. Some rules. In District Overlay 87, basically it will destroy the entire front part of the property. so that it does not leave room for us to build a parking area. The point is that we understand that as a business, we have to provide a parking space that is in accordance with the ADA rules, which is not a problem. However, we only want to have an area in the front and next to the house so that four people can come, have a parking space, and some people who come to meet also have a parking space. I understand that the road is the NCDOT road, the road that was maintained by Graham. I may be wrong, but in the research I tried to do, I understand that it is the NCDOT road. So we have to contact them regarding any permission we need for that. But we hope that the overlay can be deleted. I have seen that the property is 1.67 miles from where we are now. And I don't know, I'm not a person who likes to walk or run, so if I have to walk to the center of the city, the distance will not be 1.87 miles per walk. Well, this is what I can say.

Oh, there are sheets next to it. And the district overlay stops at the border of our property, and next to it is a residential area with commercial use.

And my understanding is that one day there will be a house development there, but there will be no The requirement to build a sidewalk there, a five-foot wide sidewalk, with a minimum width of four feet from the road, the Drainase slogan, which is now more than four feet wide, will eat up most of the front page. So, we are just a small company trying to run a business there. A good, calm business.

What kind of business is that?

That is Anora Wealth Partners. It is a financial planning firm.

How many clients come in a day? Today we have two people.

So, on average, in a few days?

Not at the same time.

She is a super woman, but she can only handle personal meetings, one by one. So I set the schedule and I try to keep one in the morning, one around lunchtime, and one in the afternoon so that he has time to make notes and finish other work. So we don't have a lot. If you count Kurir, FedEx, and Amaz, maybe we have a little more, but only three of us, four of us are in the office, and two to three clients throughout the day.

I just want to check the rules for overlaying Jalan Raya 87. My personal reminder is that if the property doesn't touch Jalan Raya 87 or 54 on Harden East Road, then it's not a problem. So I just make sure we don't touch the property.

Just for clarification, you're right, it doesn't touch Jalan Raya 7, but the front part is included in the district overlay because of how the property was previously zoned. And I can show you a few examples to help explain.

So that is the remaining property that was previously divided and connected to the property. And now it is no longer connected and stands alone, as well as not next to Jalan Raya 87.

Only the zoning on the property has never been changed? And if I may add, one of the damages we got was water. We walked together. We don't have a source of income. As far as I know, we don't have the police and the fire department of Swepsonville who have to deal with us.

I thought the city had taken over all of that a few years ago. What? What's the question? I thought the city had taken over all of that. He said that he was in ETJ and not in the city border. Yes, he was in ETJ.

He was surrounded by the city border. You see the green line there? That is the border of our city area right there. And the line surrounds this property. I don't know if you can see my cursor, but he was surrounded by the city border, but technically he was in ETJ. The demolition and police department may have a regional agreement. for Graham to respond, because I know they are in the seats, but I don't know.

I just want to clarify this rule before us. I think one of the facts that is happening is whether it touches Route 87 or not.

As Mr. Hufin said, if it doesn't, you know it disturbs Route 87, so it's not a problem.

This sounds more like a technical correction than anything else.

You can raise an argument for this. I will only explain a little about what you asked earlier about the location that is not next to the district overlay. And I want to say that the staff recommendation for this is basically to remove the district overlay from the property consistent with section 10.447 of the development regulations which states that all the silos in the district overlay are silos next to highway 87 and this one is no longer next to highway 87. So, of course, it will be in line with the rules to remove the standard overlay if that is what you decide.

I don't have any questions at the moment.

Should there be a total of two vehicles at most in one time?

Yes, four with four employees, and sometimes we drive one to three or three, or four, but then one or two clients in the afternoon. Other parts that you need to consider, and I was talking to Cameron earlier, and he also did not understand it is a commercial mix that overlay is also categorized as a commercial mix. I don't know if that will cause problems in the future. The purpose is, the purpose of the request is for all properties from Jalan Mor to the back of the property to be B2.

I don't know if that will affect anything else.

Just to clarify that, and I have talked to Cameron about this, and my understanding is that this is only a mistake on the part of GS Elements County. And if you look at the conditional warning for the development of Steelhouse Farms, which is where all of the Zonasi Penataan Ulang Kondisional districts are part of it, it never breaks this seal. I think it's just a mistake on GIS when they set it up. So the blue part is basically not real. The only part there is the Overlay District. Well, it's better to ask than assume, isn't it?

There are no more questions.

Mr. Hufin mentioned the implementation of this district, and I just want to read section 10 of Article 47, which I think will answer the question. District of South Main Street, including 87, must cover all of Persil, which is now adjacent to both sides of South Main Street, starting from the southern border of District of District of Historic and along the south, to the border of the city of Graham, as shown in the Atlas Zone of the city of Graham, North Carolina. Jika batas Kota Graham diperluas di masa mendatang, batas distrik pelapis akan tunduk pada perluasan. Jadi, saya pikir berdasarkan apa yang dikatakan Pak Hufin, ini adalah aspek teknis karena harus bersebelahan. Dengan kedua sisi dan Anda tidak bersebelahan.

Itu kabar baik.

Ada pertanyaan lagi untuk Pak Hufin?

Jadi, apakah kita akan memilih...

Now we have to clean up the technical problem and allow it. What he asked for.

The motion is to remove the coating district from this property.

Is there any more questions?

Is he talking?

My name is Tio Estus. I live at 38 Southern Hike Mount Hermon Road in Graham and run a business in Court Square. I am a real estate broker. I buy land and this house. I have talked to many people in the city. It has never been said that there is a layer and you must have a roof and everything. So we do the right thing to delete it. Because if the pavement is still there, you basically cannot use the building because there is not enough space between where the house stands and where the highway is to really have anything that is required by the pavement district. But this is an example, sometimes during the annexation of places, if you go to that business and you call 911, or if you go there and call 911, you will not get anything from the city of Graham. You will get the fire department of Swepsonville, although Graham is much closer. So that's just an example and a kind of reminder of how some things are done to create problems for growth and for business. And the last thing we want to do is prevent business from operating. Thank you for your time. Thank you.

Is there anyone else who wants to talk?

I assume this is a general problem with overlay and in the future it needs to be paid attention only to my own education about this.

First time I see this in 17 years. All right.

Thank you. I'm not saying this won't be seen again, but this is the first time I've seen this. It's true. I certainly don't mind removing the overlay from the property. It should be removed when it's re-zoned. Because it's no longer in accordance with what our regulations say from the beginning.

But if there is no further discussion. If not.

Mr. Chairman, I request the motion to approve the request for the removal of the district overlay from this property based on the Comprehensive Graham-2035 Planning Regulations for the Development of the City of Graham. The removal of the district overlay for this property is consistent with Article 10.7 of the Development Regulations because this facility is currently not adjacent to South Main Street and promotes the 2.1.5 strategy. According to the Comprehensive Plan of May 2035, the implementation of the removal of the trottoir requirements is in line with the 3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3 policy, but the requirements depend on the district overlay. Mr. Chairman, thank you.

I have a motion. Is there anyone who opposes? All those who agree.

Thank you, sir.

Right now, sir, is there a main agenda? Is there anyone who wants to talk about things outside the agenda?

I don't have any comments, sir.

And staff, do you have anything to say? No, sir.

I don't have anything else. I will not ask for a delay. I accept the motion to delay what? I support.

Everyone agrees?

Is there anyone who disagrees?