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<br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: March 16.1999 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item # 9- h <br />SUBJECT: CREEK WOOD -PRELIMINARY PLAN <br />ACTION BY: April 17, 1999 <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning & Inspections PUBLIC HEARING: Yes X No <br />BUDGET AMENDMENT REQUIRED: Yes X No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: Eddie Kirk <br />Resolution of Approval Extension 2582 <br />Application <br />Vicinity Map <br />Fiscal Impact Analysis <br />Preliminary Plan <br />February 3, 1999 Planning Board Minutes TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough - 732-8181 <br />Durham - 688-7331 <br />Mebane - 227-2031 <br />Chapel Hill - 967-9251 <br />PURPOSE: Consideration of the Preliminary Plan for the Creek Wood Subdivision. <br />BACKGROUND: The property is located in the Rural Buffer portion of Chapel Hill Township on the north <br />side of Whitfield Road (SR 1730/1731) and on the south side of Mt. Sinai Road (SR <br />1718). The total acreage of the tract is approximately 462. It is bounded on the west by <br />the H.J. Oosting Natural Area owned by Duke University and on the east by Turkey Farm <br />Road (SR 1730) and Stoneridge subdivision lots and recreation area. New Hope Creek <br />crosses the property at the northeast corner. Other surrounding land uses are residential. A <br />136-foot power transmission line right-of--way crosses the northern portion of the <br />property aligned northeast to southwest. <br />The tract is characterized by rolling topography that surrounds and drains toward several <br />stream valleys. The Johnston Branch flows out of a pond on the south side of Whitfield <br />Road under the road and north along the western boundary of the subdivision until it joins <br />Old Field Creek as it emerges from the Oosting Natural Area near the central portion of <br />