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d. Ordinance Review Committee No meeting. e. Shaping Orange County's Future No report available. L Bicycle Committee McCalip reported that the committee has begun to plan bicycle routes throughout the County. The intent is to connect the towns and the rural areas to the towns. One of the criteria is to select routes that are not on the primary NC routes and are on less traveled routes. Prior to the next meeting, scheduled for April 23, each member is to ride at least one of the routes and make a list of the bicycle improvements that need to be made. AGENDA ITEM #8: SUBDIVISION APPLICATIONS a. Concept Plans 0 (1) Lawrence Road Subdivision (Eno Township - 249 lots) Presentation by Emily Cameron. The property is located in Eno Township on the east side of Lawrence Road (SR 1709) between Interstate 85 and US Highway 70A. The current zoning is Rural Residential (R-1) with a portion in the Major Transportation Corridor. Adjacent land uses are residential, including Colonial Park (R-4) and Colonial Hills (R-2) subdivisions. The adjacent zoning to the north and east is R 1. Lawrence Road Baptist Church is located across Lawrence Road The Rock House, a site listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is at the southwest comer of US 70A and Lawrence Road The total acreage to be subdivided is 87.27. It is not located in a protected watershed. Currently the western half of the property is cultivated as hay field. The eastern half and the southern boundary is wooded with a mixture of mature pines and hardwoods including some scattered Shagbark hickory. Understory is typical for the type of forest with the exception of a few mature specimen mountain laurels east of the old road bed. Almost the entire site slopes at gradients less than 7.5 %. Near the center of the site is a "saddle" in the topography, i.e., a flat area between two ridges where slopes are near 21/6 or less, resulting in poor drainage and standing water in places. All runoff from the site is collected by three intermittent streams. Two of the streams on the northern half of the property join off site and flow north approximately 2.5 miles to the Eno River. The stream draining the southern half of the property flows south under the interstate to form the headwaters of Stoney Creek which also turns north to meet the Eno.