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the site. Old Field Creek continues in a northeast direction and flows into New Hope Creek at an oxbow near Turkey Farm Road. The 100-year floodplain on Old Field Creek and New Hope Creek is indicated on the Preliminary Plan. All three streams are included on the greenways strategy map in the Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan as well as being suggested wildlife corridors in the Inventory of Natural Areas and Wildlife Habitats of Orange County, North Carolina. The width for wildlife corridors recommended in the inventory is 100 meters (328 feet) on each side of a creek. Public roads are proposed to serve the development with a connector road running from Mt. Sinai to Turkey Farm road. NCDOT is recommending a left turn lane on Mt. Sinai. 2 Old Field Creek connects the Oosting Natural Area, 162 acres of Class 2 "Research Project Land," with wildlife movement along New Hope Creek that also flows through the Korstian Division of Duke Forest extending from Turkey Farm Road to Erwin Road near the Durham County line. The Oosting Natural Area as defined in the Inventory of Natural Areas also includes a portion of the bottomland and adjacent slopes on the Creek Wood property. The zoning of the property is Rural Buffer (Flexible Development does not apply in the Rural Buffer). The applicant has coordinated with Triangle Land Conservancy (TLC) to propose a cluster subdivision featuring 641ots on 139.1 acres with 265.20 acres of open space, all of which will be purchased by TLC. An additiona158.60 acres adjacent to Mt. Sinai Road are reserved for future development. The average lot size is 2 acres; the minimum lot size proposed is 1.1 acre. The lots will be served by individual septic systems and a community water system. Seven lots will have septic easements. The open space is approximately 57 percent of the 462-acre tract .The minimum open space required is 92 acres (20% of 462 acres). Early in the design process, Triangle Land Conservancy identified the areas that were most critical to protect. The 265 acres that will be owned and managed by Triangle Land Conservancy follow the stream valleys described above including floodplain and adjacent slopes. The proposed open space also adjoins the existing recreation area for Stoneridge Subdivision. In conformance with the plan for the New Hope Creek Corridor in the Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan, Triangle Land Conservancy plans to establish hiking trails on the property that will be accessible to the general public and to homeowners in the new neighborhood. The trail system will run along New Hope Creek and both sides of the downstream portion of Old Field Creek (see attached letter and map). The 139 acres to be developed for 641ots is located on the upland portion of the site. Access to the lots will be provided by a new public road system featuring a collector road with entrances on Whitfield Road and Turkey Farm Road. Approximately 37 lots will access the collector road from four cul de sacs.