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Town of Chapel Hill (4 acres to the east). The site is located in the vicinity of the Town Of Chapel Hill's Operations Center (see Attachment A). The site is under Orange County planning jurisdiction and is zoned Rural Buffer (RB). It is also designated as Rural Buffer on the Orange County Comprehensive Plan Land Use Element Map. The site is located contiguous to the Chapel Hill Transition Area, as defined in the Joint Planning Land Use Plan. The site is not located within a water /sewer service area, as denoted on the Water Sewer Management Planning and Boundary Agreement ( WSMPBA). However, it is located immediately adjacent to the service area boundary. The site may be served via a private ground absorption septic system and individual well reviewed and approved by the Orange County Health Department. If all parties to the WSMPBA agree that the use is an "essential public facility" the site could have public water and sewer service by OWASA. (Please refer to Attachment B for a copy of the Water Sewer Management Planning and Boundary Agreement Map). In accordance with the Orange County Zoning Ordinance, specifically Section 4.3 Table of Permitted Uses, staff has determined that a Solid Waste Transfer Station, in this specific case, represents a governmental facilities and office buildings which is listed as a use permitted by right within the RB zoning district. In order for a Solid Waste Transfer Station to be developed on the property, the project will have to go through the administrative site plan review /approval process detailed within Article 14 of the Orange County Zoning Ordinance. Based on existing mapping data, as well as field observations completed by the County Erosion Control (EC) staff during an inspection occurring in August of 2009, no water features were identified on the site (see Appendix A of EA). Additionally, no jurisdictional wetlands or streams under Section 404 of the -Clean Water Act were found on the site (see Appendix B of EA). A cultural resources literature review and field reconnaissance was also completed for the site by TRE, a subcontractor of Olver. The literature search identified no previously recorded archaeological sites, historic structures, or cemeteries on or adjacent to the site. The field reconnaissance revealed the structural remains of the ca. 1980 Francis Chan house (no historical significance) and a second structure in poor condition that had been moved to the property sometime between ca. 1972 and 1993. The structure is "almost certainly ineligible for the NRHP" (National Register of Historic Places). (See Appendix C of EA). Additionally, a Threatened and Endangered Species Survey (contained in Appendix D of the EA) concluded that the project is expected to have "No Effect" on any threatened or endangered species. K