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• <br />1 <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />PLANNING BOARD <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: March 3. 1999 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item <br />SUBJECT: WOODGREEN SUBDIVISION - PRELIMINARY PLAN <br />ACTION BY: March 19, 1999 <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning & Inspections PUBLIC HEARING: Yes X No <br />BUDGET AMENDMENT REQUIRED: Yes X No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />INFORMATION CONTACT <br />Resolution of Approval <br />Karen Lincoln <br />Extension 2583 <br />Application <br />Vicinity Map <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Health Dept. Recommendation <br />Hillsborough <br />732 -8181 <br />Planning Board Minutes <br />Durham <br />688 -7331 <br />Neighborhood Information Meeting Summary <br />Mebane <br />227 -2031 <br />Fiscal Impact Analysis <br />Chapel Hill <br />967 -9251 <br />Preliminary Plat <br />Proposed Restrictive Covenants <br />Draft Minutes of 2/3/99 Planning Board <br />PURPOSE: Consideration of the Preliminary Plan for Woodgreen Subdivision: <br />BACKGROUND: The Preliminary Plan for Woodgreen follows the conservation option of <br />flexible development as described in the Subdivision Regulations. The <br />applicant, Tri -Star, Inc., proposes to subdivide the property (30.7 acres) into <br />25 new residential lots with an average lot size of 1.03 acres (smallest lot <br />size of 0.92 acre). The proposal includes 11.04 acres or 36% open space. <br />The property is located in Cheeks Township at the southern intersection of <br />Mooreflelds Road (SR 1135) and Dimmocks Mill Road (SR 1134) on the <br />east side of Rocky Run creek as shown on the attached vicinity map. The <br />current zoning is Agricultural Residential (AR) and Upper Eno Protected <br />Watershed. (The maximum amount of impervious surface in new <br />residential development, outside of Transition Areas, within the Upper Eno <br />Protected Watershed is limited to twelve percent.) Adjacent land uses are <br />residential. <br />Site description: The total acreage of the tract is 30.7 acres. Most of the <br />property is wooded except for a 4 -acre open field in the central portion of <br />the site, which is also a ridge top at the highest part of the site. In addition, <br />