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:4Jtp:�i•r:Y�` <br />Chapter 5. Land Use EIement <br />Extractive Use <br />Land designated to encompass operations designed primarily for the <br />mining and quarrying of those substances which are legally removable <br />from the ground and substrata. <br />Agricultural Areas <br />Land which is actively being used for farming an forestry purposes and <br />which qualify for or are listed for, use value taxation purposes. <br />Stoney Creek Basin <br />Land within the boundaries of the 4,696 acre Stoney Creek Drainage <br />Basin southeast of the Town of Hillsborough In portions of <br />Hillsborough, Eno, and Chapel Hill Townships. The area is triangular <br />in shape and is bound generally by 1 -85 to the north, the University <br />Spur of Southern Railroad to the east, and NC Highway 86 to the west. <br />CONSERVATION LAND USE CATEGORIES <br />Public Interest Area <br />Land which contains public or quasi - public uses such as publicly <br />owned land, research forests or known archaeological or historical <br />sites. <br />Water Supply Watershed <br />Land draining to existing reservoirs which serve as public water <br />supplies, or to potential reservoir sites or stream intakes for drinking <br />water withdrawal which have been designated for protection against <br />threats to the water quality of future water supplies, in accordance <br />with County watershed protection programs and the North Carolina <br />Water Supply Watershed Protection Act of 1989. <br />Watershed Critical Area <br />The land area within one -half mile of the normal pool elevation of an <br />existing or proposed public water supply impoundment, or the ridge <br />line of the watershed, whichever is closest to the normal pool <br />elevation of the reservoir. <br />Reservoir <br />Land which contains a public water supply source, or the necessary <br />attributes for placement of a water supply impoundment to supply an <br />adequate quality of water for public purposes. <br />Resource Protection Area <br />Land designated as Primary Conservation Area which contains <br />sensitive environmental resources, historically significant sites, and <br />features considered unbuildable because of their limitations or <br />unsuitability for development. This includes wetlands and floodplains <br />along drainage tributaries, steep slope areas, (I S x; or greater), natural <br />areas, wildlife habitats and corridors, and significant historic and <br />archaeological sites. These areas form the basis for a conservation <br />network within which other land uses are situated. <br />New Hope Creek Corridor Open Space _ <br />Some of the land In the Resource Protection Areas and a portion of the <br />Public Interest Area designated as significant and worthy of protection <br />according to the New Hope Corridor Open Space Master Plan <br />orangelCountyCoinprehenaive:P'%w Page 5 -17 <br />