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7 <br />E. UNIVERSITY MANOR _ PRELIMINARY PLAN <br />The property is located on the south side of NC 10 east of New Hope Church Road. <br />Forty-seven residential lots are proposed on the 95-acre portion of the property located on the west <br />side of Stoney Creek. Individual on-site septic systems are proposed. Water will be provided by <br />community wells. Approximately 23 acres (24%) of the subdivision are contained within an open <br />space area to be owned by the homeowner's association. <br />Commissioner Gordon questioned the location of the two community wells. Planner <br />Mary Willis said that the two community well sites have been approved by the Orange County <br />Environmental Health Division and the Public Water Supply Branch of the NC Division of <br />Environmental Management. If they drill and find no water, they would need to find alternate sites. <br />Before the subdivision can receive 1'tnal approval, the well system will have to be completed. The <br />wells will be owned by the homeowners association but conveyed to a utility company . <br />Mary Willis said that the schools reviewed the plan in June and showed no interest in a <br />school site. Also, the Stoney Creek Planning Group reviewed this project. This needs to be <br />approved by January 18, 1996. <br />Commissioner Gordon asked that #4-B on page 7 be deleted so that the community <br />water system must be constructed according to the plans approved by DEM's Public Water and <br />Sewer Branch with no other choice. <br />Commissioner Halkiotis asked how many community water systems there are in <br />Orange County. This information will be provided before the next meeting. <br />A motion was made by Commissioner Gordon, seconded by Commissioner Willhoit to <br />table this item until December 19, 1995. <br />VOTE: UNANIMOUS <br />X. REPORTS <br />A. JOHN JEFFRIES _ OCCANEECHI RE UEST FOR STATE RECOGNITION <br />Mr. John Jeffries distributed a map which showed the Indian attractions in North <br />Carolina. It also showed the proposed Occaneechi VillageNisitor Center for Hillsborough. <br />After a brief discussion a motion was made by Commissioner Halkiotis, seconded by <br />Commissioner Gordon to approve the resolution of support for state recognition as stated below: <br />RESOLUTION OF SUPPORT <br />FOR <br />STATE AND FEDERAL RECOGNITION <br />WHEREAS, the ancestors of the Occaneechi-Saponi were an ancient people who <br />collectively called themselves Yesah or the people who originally came from <br />lands to the west, over the Appalachian and Blue Ridge mountains in an area <br />known today as the Ohio River Valley, and <br />WHEREAS, nearly one thousand years ago, the Yesah came under attack from a <br />powerful enemy and were forced to migrate over the mountains to their east <br />and settle in what is now the piedmont of Virginia and North Carolina, and <br />WHEREAS, as a result of their power, the influence of the Occaneechi and <br />of the Yesah peoples were spread far and wide and both the general language <br />of trade and the rituals of the indigenous religion of the region were <br />spoken in the Occaneechi dialect, and <br />WHEREAS, in May of the year 1676, the independence of the Occaneechi and of <br />the Yesah peoples came to an abrupt end, when Nathaniel Bacon led his <br />militia into the land of the Occaneechi in the spring of the year and <br />forced a fight .which ultimately broke the power of the tribe and scattered <br />the Yesah people, and <br />