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rural transition area capped at two units per gross acre

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The county’s agenda for Planning Commission, Oct 8, 2026

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Chris Shaver

So you go back to Previous lines I had the

And of course we can just end up with this class.

Yeah, right.

Just as a reminder.

Nectarios Pittos

on policy grows two one eleven, the rule transitionary intensity and intensity. This is articulating it's a new policy. New language into the comprehensive plan, but it is articulating Sort of a default setting that we have in our current comprehensive plan. Where The role transition area. Which is the area that's east of Northeast Rural. So it's basically west of Bellamy Brothers Boulevard and north of State Rifty Two. Just about the US forty one, but it's It's not all the way there close

to the train track. Anyway. Um The World Transitioner has been transitioning between the suburban environment to the south. the urban service area that's on the east side of Bellamy Brothers N fifty two. And the northeast rural to the north. So generally What's happened over the last 20 or so years is all the development approvals that have come in along 52, like Palmetto, even the first iterations of Palmetto Ridge, Keene Ranch, 4G Ranch, et cetera. They have all been

sub Two twelve units per acre. And so the way it's been articulated approval after approval is that development north of 52 within the rural transition area has not exceeded two volumes per acre. as a matter of practice. And as a matter of Uh plans that have been approved by the Board of County Commissioners. So Um We've taken this default setting, if you will. and actually articulated it to the conference of plan and set the

density for the rural transition area as two. Very logical sequence. If the suburban area starts at three dwelling units per acre and the max density of the rural area is one dwelling unit per acre, then the transition in between is In the two range.

Chris Shaver

Raspberry.

An acreage exclusive of wetlands present

Jon Moody

at gross. Arich. It it's gross. It's gross. And it's the policy based on gross

Nectarios Pittos

or Uh the current comprehensive plan is speaking in terms

Chris Shaver

of that.

She started taking the weapons out this is a big difference. Especially in the middle of the county.

Well. What are you doing?

as an apples to apples either growth to growth or net to net

Jon Moody

so that

we've got some common

baseline

Nectarios Pittos

privilege

Jon Moody

to

Nectarios Pittos

look at them. Right. We can do that. that. We could do that. The one thing that I will mention is that in our current comprehensive plan, Our current comprehensive plan contemplates density at net levels. The problem is that it articulates it. in the flu description specifically as gross that's So there's a confusion that happens in our current comprehensive plan between gross density and net density. And it's really hard to like understand when it's talking real true net and when it's talking true

gross. Then past twenty fifty, we've gone straight in that. So Um Which is really what the I think with two thousand six. Update. Which was the last companies platum they tried to do. to marry the two systems together and ultimately get to a net scenario.

Chris Shaver

But in any event,

Nectarios Pittos

it's

Chris Shaver

it's been kind of hard to to tack or

Same is pocket. Scoot.

Jon Moody

We're still. But the question. northeast rural areas of the L C Dwelling is the acre, Yeah. Yes, so

Chris Shaver

It would

Jon Moody

easily.

Chris Shaver

A lot of clippers. It won't take a problem.

Oh yeah. Of both I don't have a problem with maintaining. Whatever the status quo is that area. With

Jon Moody

my business. actually the status quo.

Nectarios Pittos

Well

Okay, we can we can manage that. Um But just as a matter of Of record here. So 4G Ranch, the planned development, that's 4G Ranch. Um is currently at 1.3 dwelling units per gross acre. And Palmetto Ridge is sitting at 1.6 milling units per gross acre in lead 52 PD is at 0.69. in the Faircloth PD, which is the project that's on the northwest corner of Bellamy Brothers and State Road 52. Um that

is sitting at two point zero two twelve minutes per gross acre. That project is a little different in the sense that right across the street from it is the urban surface area. So you could imagine the density got skewed a little bit due to the gravity, gravitational pull of the urban surface area a little bit at that corner. That's the only spot in the county where you have that. Uh Suburban transition and urban service area all in one one location. Um but yeah we we can we can potentially

modify the policy to talk About Not exceeding two dwelling units per gross ink, or there that way we can necessarily preserve the apples to apples comparison

Chris Shaver

with

Nectarios Pittos

the

Chris Shaver

RCA. Yeah.

Any other questions?

Okay, very good. So Our