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Planning and Zoning Commission Minutes March 12, 2019 The applicant is currently working with Cabarrus County Soil and Water Conservation District Staff to place the property in a conservation easement. The conservation easement would restrict development rights on the property, but for two homestead sites, in perpetuity. The Soil and Water Conservation District oversees conservation easements and works with the NC Department of Agriculture (NCDOA) and US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to secure funding for these easements. The NCDOA prefers that property placed in an easement be zoned properly for agriculture. Agriculture, including livestock, is permitted by right in the AD and CR zoning districts and is permitted based on standards in the LDR and MDR districts. In 2005, several properties throughout the County were rezoned to 01 as the result of recommendations in the Cabarrus County Strategic Plan for Economic Development. This study identified potential sites for Future Employment/Industrial Development. It is assumed that this property was included as an expansion of the area identified in the site as Site Q, US52/Glenmore Road. Agricultural uses are not permitted in the 01 district. Therefore, a rezoning ofthe subject property would decrease the non-conforming status of the property and bring the use of the property into compliance with the current ordinance. This is a conventional rezoning request, therefore all uses permitted in the AD zoning district would be allowed on the subject property if approved. The Planning and Zoning Commission should consider all of the information provided and determine if the proposed rezoning is consistent with the Commission's vision for this area of Cabarrus County. The Chair said he knows the Hill's fairly well, they go to church together. His daughter has been to birthday parties over there in the cabin. He knows that it is a farm and that is all it has ever been. He is 100 percent sure of that. Mr. Daniel McClellan, Soil and Water Conservation, 715 Cabarrus Avenue, Concord, NC. He said Mr. Collins pretty much summed it up. The farm has been around since 1903, in the Hill family. They have been farming it and we are trying to put a conservation easement on the property. He said it will be not be appraised correctly ifit is not rezoned. As it stands with the or designation you cannot put any houses out there. You could not even put a farmstead or anything that they could potentially build on in the future. Hopefully, trying to preserve a little bit of land in that part of the County. 4