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Orange County Board of County Commissioners <br />Z -04 -98 Agenda Abstract <br />2 <br />Secondary Development Areas are intended to provide a "step- down" or <br />land use buffer between Primary Development Areas and residentially <br />zoned or developed properties. A limited number of residential and office <br />uses are allowed within Secondary Development Areas. Where residential <br />development is contemplated, moderate densities ranging from two to four <br />dwelling units per acre are permitted. <br />Adjacent properties to the west, north and east are within the 1 -85 /Buckhorn <br />Road EDD; properties south of West Ten Road are in the R -1 Rural <br />Residential Zoning District; the entire area is within the U- ENO -PW Upper <br />Eno Protected Watershed Overlay District. A Major Transportation <br />Corridor (MTC) Overlay District extends southward 1,250 feet from 1 -40 & I- <br />85 right -of -way and covers the northern third of the subject property. Use <br />of land within the MTC Overlay District for single family and two- family <br />dwellings is not subject to the provisions, requirements and restrictions of <br />that overlay district. <br />There is one residential structure on the subject property. Adjacent <br />properties to the west, south and east also contain residential structures. <br />Areas along West Ten Road farther to the east are predominantly wooded; <br />areas farther to the west are wooded and interspersed with residential <br />uses; areas south of West Ten Road contain cleared and wooded land <br />interspersed with residential uses. <br />As documented in The Orange County Economic Development Districts <br />Design Manual (Part Two, 2.2 Permitted Uses) residential uses (single - <br />family, two- family, and multi - family dwellings in designated locations and <br />subject to design standards, and mobile homes for replacement of existing <br />mobile home and for temporary occupancy during construction of a <br />permanent residential unit) are the only uses allowed, subject to County <br />staff review and approval of development plans, within Secondary <br />Development Areas in the 1 -85 /Buckhorn Road EDD that are not allowed in <br />Primary Development Areas in that district. However, the 1 -85 /Buckhorn <br />Road EDD was approved as a Primary Area for economic development <br />and contains no Secondary Development Areas. <br />The Orange County Board of County Commissioners adopted the 1 -85 and <br />Buckhorn Road Economic Development District north of 1 -85 in March, <br />1994. In August, 1996, the Board approved the expansion of that district, <br />as strictly a Primary Development Area, to include a 586 -acre area <br />bounded by Buckhorn Road to the west, West Ten Road to the south, the <br />boundary of the Upper Eno Critical Area to the east, and 1 -85 to the north <br />excluding Clearview Subdivision and an adjacent mobile home park. Prior <br />