Planning Board - Regular Meeting

Good afternoon. My name is Charles McLawhhorn, and I'm acting Chair of the Pitt County Planning Board this evening. Our Chairman had a funeral out of state that he is attending, and our vice Chairman had business in Raleigh. So I was, uh, informed that since I'm the senior most member I don't think that refers to my age. I think it refers to how long I've been on the board. But anyway, um, then I would be the Chairman for this meeting. And at this time, I'd like to call the meeting to order, and I'd like to ask the secretary to call the role please. Lisa Ellison Here Thompson Forbes, Sharon Gray here, Lyman Hardy here Steve Little here, Charles McLaughhorn , Michael White, and Mr. Chairman, we received notice that Fred Austin, Michael Best, Rita Jackson-Gilbert and Minnie Johnson-Stewart will not be present tonight. Thank you, Madam Secretary Uh, our next order of business is our prayer and I'd like to call on Thompson Forbes if he would lay us in prayer. Gracious and loving God gather here today with open hearts and open minds to take care of the community that we live in. We thank you for the opportunity to serve and the trust placed in us to shape and be part of our county's future. Give us the wisdom and clarity and the decisions. and the discussions we have tonight uh that worked to reflect the commitment and the values we have for our communities and our neighbors. bless each person here tonight insight and peace We ask for your guidance as we conduct tonight's business. In your name we pray. Amen. A And Michael, would you lead us

some pledge of operation? Thank you. of the United States of America. and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible re liberty and justice follow. Thank you. The next order of business is to uh consider the minutes from the July 16th meeting. uh, of the Planning Board and the Chair would entertain a motion to approve the minutes. So 2. all in favor say ay. All opposed . The minutes are approved The next order of business is public addresses to the board. and we have a procedure for receiving public addresses to the board, and this, this is not for anything that is to be considered later. In other words , we have an action item that is to be considered and we generally don't entertain that information in public addresses, but rather other information. And in a few minutes, we'll be calling for an item that is on the agenda so, um so if, um you know, I have a list of names of people who signed up. who, you know, to speak. I assume on the agenda item, is that right? Did all of you, son? does OK OK. Well, are there any uh any items anybody wants to speak. Otherwise, other than to the agenda item. And we will hear from everybody who's signed up But, um it, it, but it, it, if anybody has any general business about the planning board. let them come forward now. Otherwise, we'll go on to the

next item. Um we have, uh, real, it's time to for reappointments, Jonas, do you want to tell us about that? Yes, so, um, next item on your agenda is the reappointments to the planning board. We had two members that were reappointed, uh, by the Board of County Commissioners at their October 6th meeting. That was Steve Little representing District 2. He was reappointed for a three-year term, as well as Thompson Forbes, uh, representing District 6 was reappointed by the commissioners , uh, for a three-year term. So, thank you too for agreeing to serve on this board again for an additional 3 years. Um, is greatly appreciated Thank you. And I might say on behalf of the other members of the board. Both of them do a tremendous job. I've served with both of them, and they do a tremendous job on this board and we're glad to have you. Thank you. Thank you for your service. OK, now do you want to go on to the next item? Sure. So the next item on your agenda is the elections of Officerss and appointment of executive secretary, uh, every October, the planning board is charged with, uh, electing a new Chair and Vice-Chair as well as the executive secretary, um, in addition to, uh, the Chair and Vice-Chair, it's typically, uh, the, the planning director serves as the executive, uh, secretary to the board. So, Mr. Chairman, I'll turn that back over to you And the floor is now open uh, for nominations for Chair of the playing board. Are there any nomination Mr. Chairman discussion. Yes nominated Mr. Thompson Forbes. OK, Mr. Forbes, you've been nominated. uh OK, there's been a motion to nominations be closed all in

favor of the nominations being closed. Please signify by saying I. Ah, all opposed like signed. Chairman, I'd like to donate Steve Little Ho year. OK. We're going to do 110. No. Do we, should we change now? No, go ahead with the Vice-Chair, and then we can take a pause. So let's, OK, the floor is now open for nominations for Vice-Chair. Chairman nominate, uh, Steve. OK . Steve Lawler has been nominated for Vice-Chair. Any other nominations? Is there a motion nominations be closed? Mo close nominations. Allen to the motion to close the nominations, say aye. I'll oppose like sign all in favor of Mr. Little, please uh, indicate by saying I all oppose like son. OK. In the last step would be the executive secretary. OK, and the tradition, the executive secretary, uh, you know, since I've been here, has been the planning director, and we're lucky to have him, by the way. So let's don't get somebody else . So, are there any uh nominations for, uh, for the Office of, um of Executive secretary. I'll nominate Jonas He's done a good job, and I think you'll do a good job with the willing. Thank you, thank you Any other nominations for that nominations. OK? It, it, all in favor of the nominations being closed or second to that. All in favor of that motion, please say aye. All in favor of electing Jonas Hill at our, uh, as our planning Di director as executive uh secretary to the Board, please say aye, all opposed like sign. And now at this time we can

pause to re, uh, seed everyone based off of those, uh, elections You're back at it OK, we'll get back going starting with uh with Ben, sir. Good evening, uh, new Chairman. Congratulations, and as well as Mr. Little, uh, we do have one rezoning request this evening. It was submitted by Mr. Bobby Trip. And the request is to rezone 85.35 acres, um, the property currently owned by Pitt and Beaufort County Farms LLC. This is parcel number 66309, um, and it's located on the southern side of Ramshorn Road, just west of its intersection with Richard Cherry Lane Road, and the request is to go from rural agricultural to rural agricultural conditional District to um to operate a sand mine. A locational and vicinity map just showing you where um approximately this location is. You see it's just north of US 264 east, east of the, uh, east of the city of Greenville's jurisdiction, um, and again, it's just, um, on Ramshhorn Road south of Ramshorn Road, um, we're kind of connects just west of, uh, Richard Cherry Lane Road . Some site pictures from the area . This is the actual site, um,

looking at it from Ramshorn Road , and this is an adjacent property directly to the east, um, the driveway we'll get into that in a minute, would be just to the right of this picture here. This is looking east towards Ramshhorn Road, um, or excuse me , towards, um, or down Ramstorm Road. And then this is looking back west down Ramshorn Road. Some pictures of, um, some adjacent agricultural uses directly across from the site on Ramshhorn Road, as well as some residences, um, along Ramshorn Road, uh, pretty close to the subject property. There is an existing sandm which I'll get to in just a minute, um , kind of at the intersection of Ramshhorn Road in US 264 East. The pictures shown there, as well as the commercial use on um US 264 East, and I'll show you where that is, um, in just a second. So the existing land uses in the area. Um, you see the subject properties outlined the black bear, that property just to the southeast of it, the gray is the existing sand mine I just showed , as well as that red, um, kind of flag flag shaped lot, um, kind of towards the bottom of the map is that existing commercial off of US 264. Otherwise, the area is generally resid agricultural and vacant, um, ag land as well as some residential you see there in orange. The Envisioned Pitt County 2045, uh, Future land use map does designate this area as rural residential. In this designation applies to transitional areas that include a mix of low density suburban development and agricultural lands. New developments should have relatively large lots or be clustered away from sensitive areas and or working agricultural operations. Um, typically these areas which include existing single-family homes, low density subdivisions, and surrounding agricultural lands. The uses include low density residential, agricultural, agribusiness, some isolated non-residential uses along major roads or near key intersections, and utility access is on-site septic systems with Community Water service and public sewer may be available in limited areas. Utility access

again generally less than 1 to 2 dwelling units per acre. The existing zoning, um, you see there it's all zoned, um, RA R Agricultural. There is some RR to the east of the property on the eastern side of Ramshorn Road, as well as some commercial along the highway there to the south. Again, the proposed zoning is RA , um, so the existing zoning is rural agricultural. The proposed zoning goes rural agricultural conditional District, um, and the RA zoning District is intended to accommodate a very low density residential uses, as well as associated public and institutional uses, low-intensity commercial uses and agricultural-related industrial uses, which are interspersed through all areas that are principally characterized as role and nature . This district does reflect the diverse nature of land uses within predominantly rural areas and therefore permits a ride array of land uses. Again, a conditional district does allow for a rezoning for a specific use, which again this evening, the proposed use of the sand mine. So from Section 8 DDD of the Pitt County Zoning Ordinance. There are some development standards at play here. Um, so there's a minimum of 100 ft you separation from the edge of any pit to the permit boundary of the mine. Um, hours of operation when blasting is involved, blasting is not proposed for this site, so that won't apply. There are screening requirements and they must also obtain a valid state-issued mining permit. So the sketch plan we received from the applicant. Um, you see there Rammsworns to the north, um, and I've highlighted the rezoning there in that red hatch line. So it is the entire property that is proposed for rezoning this evening. The excavation area, um, the applicants proposed that the mine out about 25 acres of the 85 total um acre site. The proposed six-foot berm, so like I said, there is screening required and the ordinance does allow a berm that is 6 ft in height around the excavation area, and that is what's shown on the sketch plan we received. I do wanna make clear this is just a sketch. This process involves only a sketch plan at this level. If it is approved, uh, professional site plan

prepared by an engineer would have to be submitted to our office. So this is just a sketch plan of the proposed use. The proposed Hall road and driveway going to Ram's Horn. The applicant is proposing to pave the 1st 200 ft off of Ramshorn Road. And then there is an existing cemetery on site, um, a small family cemetery that you see highlighted there. Big County Planning staff does find that this request is consistent with the envisioned Pitt County 2045 Comprehensive land use plan. The area requested for rezoning is designated as rural residential on the future land use map and the uses in the area are predominantly agricultural with limited residential land uses. Um, land uses, land use policy LU 4 in the plan does recommend specific site and or operational standards for uses such as Sanmons, including additional separation requirements or buffering from existing development, which I just discussed. and planning staff does find that this request is reasonable and in the public interest because there's very limited residential development directly adjacent to the proposed sand mine and because there's an active existing sand mine in the area. Additionally, the proposed mine will be screened and buffered from nearby residential properties. So staff does recommend approval with the following additional conditions. No zoning compliance permit shall be issued until a site plan prepared in accordance with Appendix B of the Zoning Ordinance is submitted to Pitt County Planning for review and approval. The site plan shall include any proposed stockpiling of material or equipment. Screening shall be provided in accordance with the requirements of Section 10H. However, if a erm is determined to be an adequate alternative screening method as provided for in section 10H, the minimum height of the berm shall be 6 ft. A 10-foot easement shall be provided to allow access to the existing cemetery on site. They will be required to submit an erosion control plan to the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality. and operating permit is required by the North Carolina Department of Environmental Qualities, Energy, Mineral and Land Resources Division prior to any work on site. A 5 or excuse me, a 5-foot

riparian buffer is required on all string features present on the site unless proper documentation is obtained from the North Carolina Division of Water Quality or the Pitt County Planning Department showing that the future is considered exempt from the tar Pan buffer regulations. They must obtain a commercial driveway permit from NCDOT and comply with all requirements for access to the subject property and finally, the applicant has proposed hours and days of operation from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. And those are not requirements, that last one for the days of operation from our zoning ordinance, but the applicant has proposed those hours based off some feedbacks he's received, and he has agreed to all the other conditions that have been presented. So the public comments will now be entertained by the planning boardard, uh, the planning board will then make a recommendation to the Board of Commissioners and the commissioners are currently scheduled to hold a public hearing on November 17th. And before, um, I turn over to you, Mr. Chairman, for planning board or for public comments, uh , staff did meet with, um, the applicant and several nearby neighbors um at the site on Monday. We've done that in the past to kind of address any concerns and kind of see the site, um, I'm not gonna say everybody walked away holding hands or anything like that as far as difference of opinion with the San Mo and whether or not they supported or not, but staff does feel like that was worthwhile and appreciates both of the, the applicant and some of the neighbors meeting us out there, you know, um, during the week, we've had that in the past where we feel like some of these conversations can at least alleviate some, even though maybe not all concerned. So I did want to bring that to the board, um, that both sides kind of met out there and, and, and staffs are only appreciates it. So with that alternative to you, Mr. Chairman. All right, with that, we'll open a floor for public comments. I will call your name, and when I call your name, please come to the microphone, state your name and your address before you just talk and you'll have 3 minutes um

to speak First, uh, Miss Lisa Lucas. Hello, my name is Lisa Adams Lucas. I'm at 106 T Trans Circle , Greenville, North Carolina. Um , we do have family and property where you all are talking about the rezoning. Boy Trip is, and my concern is today is um the health issue. If you gotta send um my there, people with health issues is not going to be good for them to breathe in those toxins. Secondly, I'm worrying about my family members that are already there. They are not on city Water, they're on a, um, what is it, um, well with doing all this digging, it can decrease the, the, their land as far as not having the, the, the actual foundation that they need Um, secondly, um, from what I read and what I understand, um, Bobby Trip already have enough sand mill. So that's neither here or there for me. Um, the blasting, we got to worry about the residents that are there. Nobody want to hear that. I don't care if it's 7 to 6 in the afternoon. Nobody want to hear blasting, where they stay at. People want peace at their home, not a bunch of noise. I live by the airport and trust me, it, it can be a headache, all those planes coming by. So I can imagine blasting all day, um, lastly but not least, y'all not talking about actually having a driveway coming to Patola's Highway. You want to go on Ramhan Road. Why you want to interrupt these people where they're staying? And that is, is Bobby Trip

planning on actually um paying these people for that little strip of land just to drive through their yard because he's gonna have to do that because there's no driveway there. And that's all I have to say Thank you. Kelvin Creech Good afternoon. I'm Kelvin Creech, 1944 Ramshhorn Road. I'm approximately half a mile from the proposed site, and I have 3 concerns. Uh, my first concern is the traffic that will be on the Ramshorn Road. We just now got our road redone and I'm very concerned about all the dump trucks becoming by my house and the other residents from 7:30 to 5 o'clock in the afternoon. My second concern is the water table. I have 180 ft deep well. I'm concerned with all the current mines in the area sooner or later, the water table will drop, and my third concern is the property value. I just found out this afternoon that this was a proposed sand mine. I saw the rezoning request, but I had no idea it was a for sand mine. So tonight, I'd like to ask the board respectfully denied the request for a sand mine. Thank you. Thank you, sir Betty Ward Hello My name is Betty War, and um we got cemetery back there and family back there. So I agree with my cousin. I think Bob Crip already got enough state your address for me. 2172 Ramshorn Road, Riverside, where y'all talking about doing that mess set. OK, so, um, like I said

that I think that um Boba Crip already got enough stuff and I stay right there and I don't want to hear all that noise. I work everyday, got small kids, so I don't hear all that noise, so that's all I got to say. And I think I hope they did not Thank you. Johnny Ward My name is Johnny Ward, 2172 Ramorn Road. and all that noise I hear that noise all through the morning, night, dump truck like do slammer and another thing too about that gray yo, I was in 5th grade when that gray yard since it's been back there, the people dead and gone. I want to do away with the graveyard and dead people. I don't understand that. They won't bill or something that I do, they want to do something that they need to build a go around the gray yard, leave the graveyard there and so bad about it, they did did away with one path off 264, and all the way go to the gray yard, it re Randhorn Road right down the road. So, I guess they want to fly a helicopter up top and bury somebody back there again or something. you know, lift it up in the air, so we need a, need a way of getting around there to the gray yo because y'all, we always go down there and clean the gray off too. So they did away with the path that ran by the Tilly Gray yo That all I got to say Thank you Ann Bradley Good evening. I'm Ann Briley. I live on 5170 US Highway 264. I'm tired of saying mines

There are 8 sand mines within the P Paktoli Community. 8 3 of them are within a mile of my home. I have well water, wonderful well water, but within a 264 area. There is no water accessible to us except our wills. and if something were to happen to our groundwater, we can't hook on to Stokes or to Greenville. Major concern. We also farm for a living along with our son we exceptionally worried about groundwater depletion for us to be able to produce our agricultural crops. Those are two of our main concerns, and they affect our neighbors too, all right? We, with this 8 sand mines in the P Paktolis area and 3 within my home I have talked with Mark Durway. He is a hydrogeologist. His position is with the division of Water Resources with the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality. I've had multiple conversations with this gentleman and learned more than I ever wanted to about Aqua and Water and sand mines, but he had , he and I in our conversation said the science proves that pumping sand has a direct effect on groundwater flow. It can cause a regional decline in the water table and adjacent properties. We farm on a piece of property right across from that. We want to be able to grow our crops. We don't want to have to worry about the water table. We deal enough with other adversities as well as climate change. Mr. Durway also said that with this many minds with 8 within that kind of short

confined, he said it would, he suggested that an impact study be performed by another hydrogeologist to see what kind of impact these and future minds would have in this area. We're talking about P Patois. We don't want to be forgotten. We want to know, yes, there may be land use at the county has produced, but we want somebody, a hydrogeologist to tell us whether we're in good shape or not good shape with any future minds. He suggests a study to be done. and also possibly no more permits be permitted until this study is done and this is from a professional hydrogeologist that is employed by the North Carolina Division of Environmental Quality. I asked that the board consider this request and not issue any more permits. Thank you. Thank you. Lilian Ward My name is Lilian Ward. I live on 2166 Ramshhorn Road, and I went and researched the graveyard back there. My family have been back there ever since I was a child. I am 67 years old and that graveyard had been back there ever since I ever known it . I've never known no other grade. My father last request was to let him lay back there where he can look at his back door, and I stays in the house that I was born in, and I feel like we don't need no s Sad mine back there. We was fine the way we was. We like

where we live at, and we don't need nobody coming back that disturbing us. All through the night. I used to go to work and I had to get up early. Now that I retire, I want to be able to enjoy it. I don't want to lay there and listen to big trucks coming in and out, and all the big machines moving. I want to have peace, so let us just have peace and stay where we are. Please do not give him that permit. Diane Bell Good evening. My name is Diane Ward Bell, and I currently live in Greenville, but when I want to go and rest and have the peace and quietness. I also reside at 2166 Ramhorns Road, where there's garden and fresh vegetables there. My grandparents are in that graveyard, and I wish that it will not be disturbed. and I'm asking for that permit to be denied. That's all I have to say. Um, I apologize. Last name Singla. Good evening. Uh, my name is Pram Singla. I own Parcel 2365. I am just finishing up an investment of $3 million putting a commercial warehouse and office complex. By putting the approving this mind, which is on the backyard of my property. but with all those unsightly mounds, all the traffic, all the big huge equipment and all the then on the on 264, my property

is on 264 R, so how much traffic right now, there were hundreds of trucks going there from this existing mines. Now you're going to add about another hundreds of them there. It's going to be a big mess. and my property $3 billion I just invested into it. That is at risk If you approve this one there, I will not be able to lease the property. I will not be able to do further development. for 2, to enhance the area. So, when I bought my property since then, 40 years ago after I start building, developing the warehouse, the property in the area has gone up by about 2 or 3 times. Why? Because there is some good business person is there doing some development and everybody thinks that there's a good future. But if you put a sand mine for my property value goes way down. I'm not even too sure if I would be able to sell it or even lease to anybody. Second thing is it doesn't do no good And I have a 100 acre of land and if this uh this is a landmines uh sorry, sand miner is approved. I will be coming forward to the same boat right here. I'm going to open up another sand mine Will you be approving it that at that time, if you approve this one. That's my question. I don't want to get into a situation that you approve this one now and then when I come with my application, then you will say, oh, there are too many sand mines in the area. We cannot approve yours. So for this reason we got 8, Mr. Bradley's had with the sand mines in this area within the vicinity of a few uh few miles. We don't need any more sand mines. Sand mines should be in a remote areas where it doesn't affect people's

lives and people live and then sand mines could do their business, and when they're done, that that's fine. But here the people living around it. I don't know why that this planning board, they said they, uh, didn't, they, they recommend approval of this one I'd like to see all those things . Why was, what did they go through to? say that one. I want them, those people to be living near the sand mine with its approval is. Then tell me that yes, we approve it. It's the people who are living there, they are the ones who are affected. Somebody should have come and talked to these people. They, everybody that, hey, they're building a sand mine. What do you think and all that? Thank you sir. I'm sorry, I, I don't know what. Thank you. Jay Cox. Ladies and gentleman of the board, thank you for the opportunity to speak. I previously served on the Pitt County Planning Board, and I understand, uh, that sometimes the decisions you make are not that easy. Um, when the county authorizes the approval of a project It also has a duty to disapprove when it does not meet proper standards or in this case does not serve the best interests of citizens. The requests before us, um, raises a lot of concerns. including the impact on our water quality, our potential lowering of the water table This affects all of our lives out there. We don't have Greenville

Utilities Water. We don't have that option. Stokes, Water stops at Davenport store down the road . I respectfully ask the board to exercise its full authority. and deny the request until proper protections and monitoring and compliance with measures are approved and the proper safeguards are there to assure our water quality. I'd like again to thank you for letting me speak I seriously, um, would like for you to deny the request for the new mine. Thank you. Thank you. Bobby Trip Good afternoon everyone Um, I've heard tonight a lot of uh um talk about whas and, and traffic and so on and so forth and and uh so uh some of these things I would like to address to the board and say, uh, all these things are looked at by the state. None of this will come forward and all of you know none of it can come to pass without a permit from North Carolina, um, as far as a mining permit in place. An engineer will be involved to do all this leg work prior to applying. This is only a request for zone change and this is the first step, as you all know, to get there. The blasting has been brought up . We'll do no blasting. The whas have been a, a, uh, a subject tonight. The this sand mine will not exceed 20 ft deep. We have test dug it. We've checked it,

and all w wells will be of course deeper than 20 ft deep. No dewatering will take place on the sand mine. So we will not discharge water that is in the ground off of this site all water will stay on site, so we can't figure a way that we would bother anybody's well with pumping water from the site. The cemetery that's been brought up to grave sites. This, if you look at our map, all this is addressed and it is to uh stay in place and continue in the same spot without disturbance with access to it in the long term plan. We, uh, we feel that this site is a good site for future plan and, and I know we're not here to rezone it for what our future plan is, but this is a, a plan for a 10 acre site home sites broke up, this farm being broke up in 10 acre sites. Once this sand mine is being excavated out. This is not just a proposed sand mine. This is a proposed 10 acre tracts to be separated for people to put home sites on and uh we have some maps that we will share in just a little bit, of course, that shows a future plan for for the 10 acres. And so when we've started this project, we did not come into it with a mindset of just saying mine we come into it with a mindset of a sand mine and creating a 10 acre track home site on for 8 different sites and we know of course they have to be 10 acres plus So we're asking the board to consider all this and, and thinking, hey, this is another opportunity for not, uh, not clustered homes. This land this land is already zoned where we could use 30,000 square foot lots on it as it's zoned, but we're not asking for that. We're asking to use it as a 10 acre track as far as far as small

farms. so we would please ask the board to uh consider it strongly thinking in the outcome of what it means to the county. Thank you. you Sandy Trip Hello, my name is Sandy Tripp and I live at 5130 US 264 East and my main concern is the quality of my water. I have a sand mine to the left of me, to the right of me, behind me, then it's gonna be one up there. I love my well water and I don't want to have to worry about the sand and it going dry and I have some uh rental property that's across from the sand mine on Ram's horn in 264 that I found out that the well has gone dry, so now I've got to ask them to leave. So that's all I have to say. Thank you. Thank you William Ward William Ward 68 Blake Street, Washington, North Carolina. I can remember back in the day when I was small, that cemetery back there, it ain't no bigger than a Mabox now, because they took all the land when from the cemetery playing traps on it. and I can remember that but he come up digging some sand . He ought to go dig some back here out. He wants some sand, dude. You know, it been that cemetery has been there ever since I can remember. And now you are come about digging some sand, go dig in your backyard, man. We don't, we don't need that man You want, you must want to kill some people. but that's what you're gonna do They go dig in your house, you

know. You know, we've been, look, like just like that summer, I can remember. Rob Pit gave, gave my, uh, gave us that, that lot, that cemetery lot. I'm not lying, I just go back there and clean it all. I didn't want to go back there I used to be so lazy, my dad said, Bo, come on back there, you gonna clean that cemetery. I go back there and cut them bra and all that there and that like I said, that cemetery ain't big as a Mat box, man. Gu done tru so much man from the cemetery. You need to get the man Guard in survey because it's, it's in uh what you call? to tell you how big that, that, that plot was. That plot, it's before my aunt Edward died, she told my mom it was 3 plots back there. And right now I can't see the three plots back there, cemetery, cause he's a big war cemetery, uh big wall wes a big family. and Rob Pitt gave, gave us that plot before he ever left him. So I hope y'all deny him He want decentsan let him dig it in his back yard. His last name I had for public address. any others. With that, I'll close the comment period for the public address. Ta. comments from the board. And I will mention that y'all should have had a couple of sheets where we did receive a couple of written comments as well, um, at your table this evening. Questions from the board I have a question about the proximity of the existing dwellings. I saw the pictures, but how close are This is our existing land use map. Um, you see this little cluster of, uh, residential right up front. I believe

several of the wards live up there. Um, there's also residential here, um, those are the ones kind of directly adjacent as well as uh um property there to the south of it. Otherwise, agricultural, but you see all the orange there is residential. That kind of shows the ones that are directly adjacent to the site. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm doing, um, his presentation, he said that um they were gonna be a 10 acre home site. Um, where is that gonna be? How close is that proximity gonna be to the site area. So what Mr. Tripp is proposing that if this is approved, they would excavate the site and use the sand for development projects. Once that's done and the state mining permit um is released and they clean up the site. He would then come in on this site that we're looking at this evening and do 10 acre tracks and build residence that's kind of around um the pond and other than that, I can let Mr. Shr speak to it, but that is staff's understanding. We do have that preliminary. Again, this would be after, um, the San mine done. So that's kind of what he's proposing on site. Again, it's separate from this request this evening, but his long term plan, as we understand it, is to come back and basically remove the rezoning as the conditional District for the sand mine uh release it back to the current zoning that it is now so that they could then develop it for residential uses, 10 acre tracts , um, as opposed to, like you said, currently the RA zoning District, um, allows 30,000 acre tracts. The proposal would be for 10 acre tracts. Again, that's what has been presented to staff. OK. My last question is, um, uh, Ms. Brierley mentioned an impact study. Anything done by our staff to um find out environmentally So, um, we met with Mr. Brawley last week. Um, y'all heard about some concerns with Wells this evening. We asked our, um, environmental health Director Kent Keeter. He met with us for

about 30 minutes as part of that meeting, kind of explained how the wells work. It was very educational for me. Kent's takeaway and again, Ms. Brawley spoke to somebody with the state who has their comments as well. But Kent's takeaway without guaranteeing that it wouldn't affect the wills that it would be very minimal. And again, I don't want to speak for Kent and I don't wanna question other sources out there because I'm sure there's plenty of them. That's what we were told tote, um, Kent deals and permits these wells and based off of, um, the depth that these wills usually go to. His concern with this sand mine affecting it was close to zero. And as Mr. Tripp said, the, the water's not being taken off site or pumped into a creek or anything like that. So the water is staying on site so I don't pretend to be an expert in that. That's what I learned from talking with Mr. Keeter and what we've done with our own research. That's kind of staff's what I learned from that. Again, don't claim to be an expert and don't want to question any other comments that other people have presented tonight with that specific question. Thank you. Mr. Chairman as I have heard, each one of the folks mention their comments and now here too that even from a Monday night meeting and from conversations along the way, it sounds like the well water, the water table, items have been addressed, maybe not always to our likings, but not as difficult as we may think sometimes. The cemetery, I heard that addressed just a few minutes ago to far as having access to the cemetery and to make sure that it would not be moved, anything there would be moved, OK? Um, hours of operation and there again the fact of no blasting makes everything all in line with the criteria that our staff has to work with

and approving this uh project. So as we go forward to let you know also that if this project now is approved by this board. We'll be making that as a recommendation to the Piccanic commissioners. We don't have the final say. So just be prepared if it is approved, and you're gonna have to be coming back and making those same comments again, OK, to the county commissioners. So just be aware, but it sounds like um whatri has tried to make some at least information available. to everyone. Again we don't always like what we hear. and I'm probably a good subject of that right now, OK? But it does happen that way. So um, Mr. Chairman I yield at this minute Yes, sir. outstanding requirement Can you press your button, please? I'm sorry I'm sorry. Do we have a standing requirement in our ordinance for a certain distance. in the form of a buffer to be between between a sand mine and a residential house. We do not, so in this situation as a private, uh, family cemetery. If it was more of a large like, um, the pine wood on the eastern side of Greenville, if it wasn't actually I call corporate cemetery where folks are buying plots, there would be regulations on that. In this situation, I mean we deal with them probably once or twice a quarter. Um, somebody wants to bury a loved one on their property. We don't regulate that , you know, they have to speak with environmental help to make sure for septic and will purposes that there is, they, they have state rules for that. And my understanding with the state mining permit, they have rules for the distance away from the, um, cemetery that they'd have to be, and I believe that's why the sketch plan shows that little cutout kind of around it to meet that.

50 or 100. 50 ft from a cemetery and you see it kind of cut out around that to adhere to that. And again, that's a state requirement during that state mining permit process, they would, uh, verify that. But look , and I know that everybody who was in the 500 ft got notice of this meeting However, um it appears that a lot of people live within, say, 1000 ft of this and a sand mine is different. from a lot of other passive uses . uh, in terms of how far the effects the noise and the and the sand itself, how far they travel Um, anyway, it just concerns me that there appears just from the line drawings, I don't have I, I don't have a you know a map that I can really look at and tell, but it, it appears from the line drawings that there are a fair number of people living within a pretty close proximity to this and, and correct me if I'm wrong. And I put back up that existing land use map showing that. So hopefully that gives a pretty good visual of the current residential versus other uses, um, in the general area. But all those, all of those orange uh, sections are or how or where people live, right? Co. Those are residential used properties. Yes, sir. OK. Well, uh, all I'm saying is, I'm considering the noise that may come from a sand mine in the , and the effluent of the sand itself. I don't know that I think that they should be that close to uh residential uses. It's just my opinion Jonas, I have one other question . Um, the lady that spoke, uh, said there were 8 mines in the area. So the map that you just were on. Um-hum. How close are they to And we actually created kind of a map showing those in the area.

So this is not showing all 8 because there are some to the south. So this is the area what we consider the the subject area we're looking at. So there's currently 3 active ones directly closed. There are other ones further north in the area that we don't really feel from a land use perspective, kind of. reach the conversation of, you know, a sand mine in the general vicinity. So the yell went up in the top left as the one we're looking at this evening. Um, that's pending, obviously, there's an active sand mine just to the east of it, um, at the corner of Ramshorn Road and US 264 to the south of that and the yellow, um, that was a sand mine that was initially denied by this board and the Board of Commissioners and the applicant came back a year later and increased their setback requirements. You may remember that when the, there's a gentle, gentleman in opposition that had an RV Park to the south of it. but they kind of had the same conversations and met and gave and take a little bit, you know, in the operator there doubled the setback in that situation. The one to the left of that, um this one is an active sand mine that was, it predates our zoning ordinance. So that was there before zoning was adopted in the county in 2003. We have no regu regulations over that one at all whatsoever. The red one there, um, that was also pre-zoning, that is no longer active. It's been released by the state, um, and there's no longer in operation. And then to the east of that, um , that one is operated by, uh, ER Lewis. So that one is active as well. So that kind of gives an idea of what's in the area active, uh, pending, um, and then the one that has been released by the state. So those are the ones in the very general area that we kind of looked at during this conversation. May I So, the cemetery appears to be squarely in within the perimeter of this mine site. So, how will people who are interested in going to visit the gravestones of their loved ones. Access that site and what will the environment be when they get there. So from,

and there's nothing in our ordinance that addresses this. So one of staffs that when we first got this before we even reviewed it with the applicant and he agreed to it later was that that needs to be addressed. The only thing we can really do is just put it in our conditions and the applicant has agreed to it to have a 10-foot easement from Ramshhorn Road to that cemetery. Um, this is a, it's a private piece of property. It's, it's changed ownership several times to the point of where Mr. Trip has an option on it. Um, it's, it's not its own parcel, if that makes sense. So it's not like it's a parcel that they're required to provide an easement to. That would be voluntary and whoever owns that property, Mr. Trip or somebody else could go put in 100 House subdivision out there won't come before this board. It won't go before the commissioners. They would still probably have to put some kind of easement into that, um, cemetery, but with it being just part of this private property, like I said, has changed hands. I'm not sure exactly where Mr. Trip, that's part of what that's full site plan review, um, would entail if this is approved to have that site plan approved, showing that easement that does provide that access, um, so anybody, family or otherwise could go out there. Mr. Trump maybe can speak to what they may or may not do to stay away from it outside of the 50-foot rules. They have, um for actual excavation purposes, but we really don't have anything besides that condition that, you know, we put in that easement and that has to be agreed to by the applicant. Uh, we don't have any teeth of that outside of that. So if he didn't agree to it, we couldn't really hold them to that. In this situation, Mr. Bobby Trip has said he's more than happy to do that, but otherwise, since it's part of this private property, we just don't really have much teeth to provide appearance or access otherwise outside of that agreement. I have another question Uh, so, uh, Mr. Tripp, I believe , commented, uh, he leaned kind of heavily on the idea that the sand mine was just phase one , and then there would be these 10 acre tracts. I don't see the connection between the necessary connection between those two

ideas. look at them as two separate projects. I mean, as part of our presence, that's why we didn't include it in our presentation. We've been told that that's kind of his long-term plan. Um, I wouldn't recommend it as a a a part of the board's decision tonight. I think Mr. Trip was just kind of showed that, look, after this is Doug, it's not just gonna be a hole in the ground. There's gonna be some 10 acre tracts, farm sites, and Pitt County doesn't have a whole lot of subdivisions like that. So, uh, my understanding is he just thinks that's a potential need, lakefront property in Pitt County. Um, again, that's a separate project. He had to rezone it back to the current RA zoning District and then go through that subdivision process for those 10 acre tracks. So it really has nothing to do with this project. Um, status recommendation was to kind of keep them separate since the conditional District is strictly for that sand mine itself. Um, but that's my recommendation on how to view those two different projects. So the mining isn't necessary for the possible tract project. It, it could be subdivided now without the the mind on it, if that answers your question. OK. Mr. Chairman, with the, with the number of existing, uh, sand mines that are out there right now. And somebody brought up a, a really something that stuck with me as far as the property value. So has that come up with any of the, of the requests that have been, uh, approved before, and do we know anything about how, uh, these existing landmines or the proposed landmines, I mean, uh, sand mines would affect the property value of the, uh, of the existing area and even in the future with what Mr. Tripp is planning. I'm not familiar with any study, if you'll remember, I think we've had some solar farmers where they bring in experts for, you know, land appraisals and things of that. Jonas, you're not familiar, are you? Yeah, so, to my knowledge, staff hasn't received anything with Sanmon's specifically as

far as property values. So I'm not aware of anything. I do have one more question. Um, so I, I know in the past we have received information about the life span of a mine, and forgive me if I've just missed it on this one. Is there a uh, do we know how long this mine would go on? Do you mind if I ask the applicant to come answer that question, Mr. Philip , you you'll step up here. So time frame on this, of course , our goal is to get to the end to sell 10 acre tracts. That's the whole goal of this mine, and I, and I want to address this why because you ask a good question and, and without knowing the rest of it, we started this again asking to dig this only the purpose of selling 10 acre tracts and homesteads around this lakefront area, OK? So it'd be low impact, it'd be low density. I mean, uh, you know, so instead of it being a high density neighborhood in this area, we felt more comfort able with something low density with 10 acre tracks. So, as I mentioned earlier, there's nothing else in the county that offers a body of water that you can build on, such as this, unless and just be frank with you unless you want to spend a million dollars, you know, so this is, this is kind of a, um, a mindset we have. We, and asking as far as time frame. we are going to be aggressive getting it out to use it for these 10 acre tracks. So the goal here is the 10 acre tracks around the body of water, as much so as or more so than it is to mining. Ian so to speak, are you, are you saying that you're gonna, whatever you excavate from there, it's not going out here anywhere, but you're doing this for the purpose of the future proposal

that you have, that hasn't even been suggested or approved yet. He Yes, correct. We're creating the lake for the future project, OK, but the but the material will be excavated and hauled off site because that site couldn't hold this much material, of course. All right, but and and back to the cemetery, if I can. touch on it just a minute. I wish we could see the, and can we show the long-term plan? I'm good with it. I pulled up and we had it just in case it was I think when you see the long-term plan, it'll make more sense where we're heading with it. And uh, and, and maybe some of the neighbors have not seen that either. When you say long term, sir, how far is long term? We're hoping to be out of this mind. We, we want to be out of it in 5 years. That's what we want to be out of it. No more than 5 years. should be able to see that hopefully on your screens. Sorry. Can you see that now? OK, I'm gonna try to zoom in Yeah, we're good. All right Oops So if you, if you see, you can see the lighter color in the middle represents what will be the body of water when we're finished with the mine that we're having to get the mining permit due to the size of it. That would be the body of water. All these different shady colors are 10+ acre tracts that will be put in around it. And if you see these, uh, the black outline, the black section running down beside it that represents the rose to access each one of these tracts of land. So where the cemetery is right now, the cemetery really has no access when it's, when it's, you know, when it's farmed, it's

farmland all the way around us, round the cemetery now, the graveyard cemetery. So when we, when we complete it, you would go to lot Lot 4. If you see where the end of that road runs that shared drive for those two parcels of land would access you back to the cemetery. to the graveyard So is the only way to create a manmade lake to operate a sand mine? We have to permit it for a sand mine. We can't dig the lake. We can, we can only dig 5 acres for site project. Once we exceed our 5 acres, we have to apply to, to the state for sand mine permit, and we, and the and of course the regulations for the county is you have to get a rezoning to apply for the sand mine. And as has been mentioned several times before, this is zoned for 10 acre tracks is zoned for 30 tracks. So, uh, we really fail again that this would be a good use for this track of land in lieu of putting X amount of houses, like, you know, it could be 100 houses out there But we felt like this would be a better use for land than cramming houses in in this type setting because it's more rural agriculture. And that was the reason again for what I heard earlier. We've got 85 acre plot, but we're just gonna to mine 25 acres. If we were in, if we were thinking mining only, uh, we'd be up here explaining to you how we're going to mind 50+ acres or 80, hey, or 80 if we could get it,

you know. So that is not the intent and distance from residential, if you go back to your other map, you'll see that buffer. It, it represents that buffer is a that green area that represents a 100 ft buffer plus so that gives you an idea from residents, I mean from areas around it. And we've got sand mines that operate, uh, you know , as I mean, as close or closer to some of these areas, than what this one does And uh and I'm sure the county will vouch for it. We don't have any noise that creates a problem with neighbors in the areas that we're operating in that we're getting reported to the county for. So right now, is there was there something in the, the uh in the recommendation that you guys prepared for us that allows for uh access to the to the uh site where the graveyard is currently before the, the, uh, home sites gets laid out in the future. Is it something that will give them access to that while all of this , uh, sand mining is going on, where they, the family that had, you know, family members out there where they still have access. So that easement would run with it for life after the cemetery. Um, that 10-footis that we're requesting and putting as a condition that Mr. Tripp has agreed to. Yes, sir I'm curious about types of mining, sand mining operations. This is it sounds like not as industrial . as some operations are This is non-blasting This has no dewatering, so the water never leaves the site which is typical for a sand mine . A lot of times you want to get the water off site so you can go

as deep as you can. This pit right here will be dug without pumping any water anywhere. and again, it is not our primary focus. It is our primary focus is to create a body of water to sell 10 acre tracts around. Other questions Thank you, Mr. Thank you Other comments from the board discussion. Yes, sir. Uh, we'll take your comment. I have one question I'd like to ask. You're talking about a sign , a sand mine for 5 years. operational from 7 o'clock to 5:30. My question, how many trucks a day will come down in front of my house for the next 5 years. On, on an average day, how many loads of sand will come in front of my house. because I'm very concerned about the traffic on a two-lane highway. We have a lot of farm equipment during the summer going by. And I mean, I'm, I'm very concerned over the traffic. Thank you Mr. uh, Singler, you've, since we've closed and you've had an opportunity to speak, I don't, I don't want to open public comment again.

I'll entertain motion from the board. There's no more discussion. Mr. Chairman I hope that we approve the recommendation of the staff and that we do that because this proposed rezoning request is consistent with the Invasion Piccany 2045 Comprehensive land use plan and um therefore, I just moved that we to grant approval. There's a motion on the table. Was there a second? 2nd. Any discussion All those in favor say aye Ah All those opposed like please raise your hand. All this in favor. and those opposed, please raise your hand. Motion failed. And if we could, Chairman, um, you should have a worksheet in the page. What the, the caveat Since we're not going with staff's recommendation, if the board can look at that worksheet as far as the verbage for the motion, um, otherwise, let me see what page it's on, sorry. Page 48 It may assist, um, a potential second motion. I move to recommend denial of

the proposed rezoning request by Bobby Trip and find that it is not consistent with the vision of Pitt County, 2024. Comprehensive land plan, and it's not reasonable because of the requests. for the following reasons by the board will not, will have adverse impact on the surrounding properties and does not protect significant natural features of ecological sensitive areas. Right? The motion, a new motion. Second. OK. the 2nd All those in favor, will you please raise your hand? and opposed Motion passes. All right, thank you. And as a reminder to the board and the public here tonight, this will go before the , uh, Pitt County Board of Commissioners at their meeting on November 17th. And if you're within 500 ft and got a notice for this meeting, you will be given a second notice for that meeting. Thank you very much Thank you. All right Moving along, Mr. Gooby, amendments to the zoning ordinates. Thank you, Mr. Chair, uh, Mr. Gooby is not with us tonight, so I'll be handling that, uh, next request. Next request is a text amendment to the Pitt County Zoning Ordinance, uh, on October 6th, just last week, uh, the, uh, North Carolina General Assembly, uh, passed House Bill 926 and it became law. Uh, they amended through that legislation, North Carolina General Statute 160D-601, which, uh, states that if a rezoning request, for example is denied by, uh, the Board of Commissioners that the applicant would have to wait one year before bringing that item back to be reconsidered. Um, so with

the amendment uh, by the legislation, uh, they have taken that calls out, that one year wait period has been lifted. Uh, so we therefore, in order to be in compliance with state laws need to amend our zoning ordinance to reflect the state. uh, laws. Therefore, we are recommending to amend Section 14-J, uh, of our zoning ordinance to remove that clause of that one year wait period, uh, for any action taken to deny a project clear. OK. Actually, with the, with the wait period, with the legislation being passed, we can no longer legally have a wait period. So if, if someone brought a rezoning request that was denied. Uh, currently, they would have had to wait one year before presenting another plan, uh, similar to that original plan. Now, with the amendments by the state. if a rezoning request was to be denied, they could turn around the following month and resubmit the plan, hopefully addressing some of the concerns as to why it was denied in the first place , um, to seek approval. Um, it's my understanding that this legislation was passed by the General Assembly in an effort to , uh, create more affordable housing scenarios. So if a developer brought a plan to a board, they denied it. That developer could, would not have to wait another year to address the concerns that were brought up, but could resubmit the plan and speed up, uh, that development process, uh , to satisfy the affordable housing or sho shortage of affordable

housing. So our recommendation is to remove the language to comply with state law, uh, from Arizoning ordinance, um, the schedule for this is tonight. Uh , we're presenting to the planning boardard and we'll take this along with the, uh, previous item to the Board of Commissioners on November 17th, uh, to remove that language So recommendation of our own. And if I could get that, I, I was getting ready to say I recommended motion is that it's consistent with the land use plan to comply with state law and that it's in the public's best interest because of state law. all of that, Mr. Chair. Thank you. Um, that's part of my motion. I second that All right. Motion on the table, all those in favor Actually. Any other before, before we get to the motion and all, we need to have a public hearing, uh, because it is an amendment to the ordinance. So you can open and close the public hearing if no one's here. I'll open it for public comments OK. Hear no, I'll close it Now we can accept the motion. Yes, yes, yes. You, please come up. State your name again and your address. It's Ann Briley. I'm a little confused, um, about the amendment, and I know we have to comply with state law. They y'all to vote on that. But it was my understanding that I want to be sure I understand what y'all are voting for, that an applicant with this type of thing that we've talked about tonight that our legislature has taken out, you have to wait the one year, correct? OK, and that is what y'all are voting on. So an applicant could come right back

in 30 days, 60 days, and come back in and we could all do this again if that one year that our legislature said that y'all are almost have to do that to be legally compliant. Is that correct? That's true, but this is not the only dumb thing that this legislature has done. but it's the law. OK, now I'm a little bit confused too because you voted on one thing, and then we turned around and you voted on something else as far as the applicant. Did the what difference does it make if they bring it back a day later or a year later, really. What difference does it make? I mean, what, what is the value of waiting a year from the standpoint of our economy. Oh, I see what you're saying, Tony. I do. I understand what you're saying on that. I guess it's to see if we can obtain more data that would either support the position or deny the position. I don't know. I'm not in the legislature. I don't know that. That's just my opinion. It would just be giving an opportunity, uh, for someone to come back and submit more information, either for something or against something. Thank you. Thank you. I was just wanted some clarification. Thank you. So to try to shed a little insight. I think, I think the idea is if an applicant was denied for whatever reason, um, and turn around and submitted the exact same plan, they're probably gonna get the same result. So I think the, the one-year period, just delayed the applicant's ability to address the concerns as to why it was denied so they could bring it back and seek approval in a shorter time period, uh, is my understanding. Absolutely, Mr. Chairman, if I could just say camp on what he just said. I mean, sometimes the plan is not, we voted down because it's not perfect. and the developer will come back and make it perfect, and he

shouldn't or she shouldn't have to wait a year to present it again. That's my opinion. So anyway, and again, staff is recommending this because it is now state law as it has been, uh , voted in by our legislator. legislature OK. we still have to go Absolutely. a year from now after 30 days from now. hopefully like you. said it will take the recommendations you know, by it may have been denied. come back and then start to see that the, the changes necessary changes have been made. So I don't, I don't change The way you look at it it would be Deum but we could reapply because it's got to wait for the county commissioners and no woman ate to make a decision over. That's correct There. All right Do we need to redo that motion? Yes, please, just for the record . OK I'll put our recommendation on the screen for you sir. um I, I moved at the planning boardard adopt the recommendation of the planning staff. and, and on the grounds that this is consistent with the envisioned Pitt County 2045 land use. Comprehensive land use plan. because it will allow the planning staff to continue to promote an effective jurisdiction-wide land use regulatory program that is consistent with applicable state law and regulation. And, uh we find that the proposed amendment is reasonable and in the public interest. because it is intended for consistency with state law and regulation and that is my motion And I second that motion. Thank

you. Any other discussion? All those in favor please raise your hand. Thank you. Any opposed Thanks. All right Informational items. All right, um, Great job with that motion, by the way, Mr. McLaughhorn. um Um, informational items, just want to cover, uh, our work program for this, this year, uh, was developed back in July. However, this is the first time since July we've had an opportunity to meet, so wanted to include our planning department's work program and your agenda packet. That covers all the tasks that our department intends to perform, uh, this physical year, uh, from 25 to 26. Um, just to hit a couple of highlights, um, we have already begun, uh, the implementation of our EPNL permitting software. Uh, we intend to launch the planning department side of that, uh, in November, that will allow developers to submit, uh, plans, whether it's rezoning requests, subdivision plans, stormwater plants, soil erosion plans, electronically online through our, uh, permitting system. So we're excited about that. Uh, we just had a meeting today with the development community. They receive fe ed b ack and input on that software to ensure we have a smooth transition, hopefully next month in, uh, November with that. So looking forward to that . Also, um, we have, you may have heard, uh, we have implemented a forerunner software. This software, um, allows the general public to get information regarding floodplain , um, it is a user-friendly software that if you clicked on a parcel, you could find the history of that parcel regard ing flooding. Uh, you could find any elevation certificates or information that we've permits that we've issued for any

structures on that property. Uh, so we feel like it's very helpful and beneficial. Um, it will also help the county with its community rating system. Um, that is administered by FEMA. Uh , they come and audit us to ensure we are complying. So any correspondence we have with any, uh, citizen will be entered into the software and it will be tied to the parcel and we can run a report as to our communication when we're audited for that. So we're super excited about that. It will make, uh, that audit process a little easier. Um, also, we are still, believe it or not, dealing with the recovery from Hurricane Florence. Um, we are in the process very shortly. We'll have that program closed out. We have bought out the homes that we intended to buy. We have demolished them and made sure all improvements were removed, such as septic tank whas, driveways, that sort of thing. So we are wrapping that up and hope to have that closed out by the end of this year. Um also, I am serving on the Tar River flood resiliency Blueprint Committee. Uh, this is in conjunction with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources. We're looking at the, uh, resiliency of the Tar Pamlico River basin as a whole. It involves, uh, community, uh, leaders from all across the tar Pamlico Basin and hopefully we will have good, uh, data to support that, uh, program, uh, here this year. So, keep, uh, on the lookout for more, more information, uh, regarding that program. Moving on, uh, to other items included in your informational items. Uh, we've had several rezoning requests that came before you and has since gone to the commissioners for approval or denial, and, um, that information and the action that the commissioners took is

included in your packet. Uh, we'll say just to hit a couple of highlights, the megasite, uh, that you guys heard at your last meeting in July. The commissioners did recommend approval of that, uh, so that project is moving forward. Also, the Calvin Overcash rezoning request that you heard along with the megasite that was approved by the commissioners as well. Um, as well as HSP investments, uh, that one, that was, if you'll remember, that was the mini storage for Sawyer's, uh, property. They requested that we, uh delay going to the Board of Commissioners to give them an opportunity to speak with the property owners. So they are still in the process, um, of communicating with the adjacent property owners to try to reach a compromise before taking that to the commissioners. Um, Hexagon, that was a solar farm, if you'll remember down in Grifton, uh, that item did go before the commissioners and was approved. And, um, as well as the Ta amendment for Art Consulting Group that allowed that conservation buffer around, uh, rezoning requests. Um, also, you have some information in there in your packet, uh, regarding the Noos River hazard mitigation plan update that, uh, that item did get approved by the commissioners to update our hazard mitigation plan. Um, so we've submitted that to the state and fortunately, we are in compliance should a natural disaster occur, we should, uh, receive or be eligible for federal funding, uh, in those events. Hopefully, we don't need it. Um the Pitt County Floprint report, uh, item is in your agenda. You can read more about that as well as your, um July, August and September, monthly reports for the planning department. As always, uh, you

can find all this information in the general public on our planning website, which is undergoing a change right now to seek compliance for, um ADA compliance for the website. So we're in a transition period, but the information is still out there. Did want to touch, uh, some of y'all may have heard on the news that Pitt County is, uh , in the process of adopting its , uh, or developing its strategic plan, uh, for the county. There's currently a survey online that you can access, um, through Pitt County's website. I would encourage y'all if y'all have not done so, to visit, uh, the website the county's website, and take that survey. Um, the strategic plan is uh designed to develop a roadmap, if you will, of, um, all to align all County departments, employees and community partners around, um, a shared vision and common goal of where we're headed here in Pitt County. So, uh, it's got a lot of good questions that you can comment on, share your opinions on, on the direction you see the county going in the future. So if you haven't had an opportunity, I would encourage you to go on, uh , the website and complete that survey. Uh, they have hailed several public input sessions around the county, uh, last week. However, uh, all of those have been held. There is still a virtual meeting, uh, scheduled, uh, for tomorrow night, um, at 6:30 p.m., um, and if you're, anyone's interested that's listening or if any of y'all are interested, you can contact our county Manager's department to get a link to that , uh, that virtual, uh, input sessions. So that's all I have, Mr. Chair, unless y'all have any questions. Thank you. Any questions

Any other business for the evening You're none I'll take a motion a motion to adjourn. All right. As a favor. Say ah. Ah. Ah. Have a good evening Thank