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27 ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING DEPARTMENT 306F REVERE ROAD HILLSBOROUGH, NORTH CAROLINA 27278 u a February 5,1999 Dear Property Owner. You have been identified as the owner of property within 500 feet of a proposed amendment to the Land Use Element of the Orange County Comprehensive Plan. This proposed amendment, CP -1 -99, has been received from Apex Northwest Partnership for property between NC 86 and NC 57, north of the Town of Hillsborough (please see map on reverse). This proposal will be presented at a public hearing before the Orange County Board of Commissioners and Orange County Planning Board at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, February 22,1999. The public hearing will be held in the Judge F. Gordon Battle Superior Courtroom of the New Orange County Courthouse, 106 East Margaret Lane, Hillsborough, North Carolina. Apex Northwest Partnership requests an amendment to the Land Use Element of the Orange County Comprehensive Plan to expand the Ten -Year Transition plan category to land currently designated Agricultural Residential. The property in question is north of the Town of Hillsborough and lies between NC 86 and NC 57 and north of Rocky Lane (SR 1622). It lies west and north of Mars Hill Baptist Church which is approximately 1.25 miles north of the intersection of NC 86 and NC 57. The property is undeveloped, contains 312.96 acres, and is fiuther referenced as parcel 14, tax map 3, Hillsborough Township. The southern portion of the property is proposed for dedication as a school site. A smaller tract containing 78.11 acres referenced as parcel IA, tax map 5, block B, Hillsborough Township, and owned by Eva P. Brown et al and Lanie B. Powell is adjacent to the Apex Northwest Partnership tract on the south and is also included in the request. The proposed amendment would redesignate this property from its existing classification of Agricultural Residential to a new category, Ten -Year Transition. The designation of Ten -Year Transition is applied to land in transition from rural to urban uses which has or will have access to public water and sewer service. The proposed designation of Ten -Year Transition would allow potential rezoning of the property to higher - density residential uses in the future. The property is currently zoned AR, which permits residential uses with a minimum lot size of 0.92 acres. You are invited to attend the February 22 public hearing and comment on the proposal. If you have any questions or desire more information about this proposal, please contact me at 732 -8181, 967 -9251, 227- 2031 or 688-7331 (extension 2594). Sincerely, X44� Donald R. Belk, AICP Planner IIJLand Use and Preservation