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2' A major subdivision application is required in Orange County because a new public road —Amber Wood Run —is being dedicated. Booth Road runs into US 15 -501 in the Starpoint Community, just south of the Orange County Line near the Smith Level Road intersection. To the north, Booth Road ends in the Orange County subdivision of Oak Crest adjacent to Price Creek Estates. Surrounding land uses are residential. The adopted Land Use Element of the Comprehensive Plan designates the area as Rural Buffer, and the current zoning is RB(UNIV -PW)--Rural Buffer (University Lake Protected Watershed). Flexible Development regulations do not apply in the Rural Buffer. Much of the acreage slopes to the west draining into the East Branch of Price Creek which flows into University Lake approximately one mile north. The lots will be served by individual wells and septic systems. Given that Chatham and Orange Counties are in different DOT districts, letters from NCDOT are included in the attachments to explain how construction of the proposed road and future maintenance will be reviewed and implemented. The property's western boundary in Orange County borders East Branch of Price Creek for approximately 250 feet. The calculated stream buffer width for lot 12 adjacent to East Branch of Price Creek ranges from 50 to 100 feet beyond the 100 -year flood line, depending on types of vegetative cover and percent -of -slope calculations. Including the floodplain, the stream buffer line lies 160 -180 feet from the creek. The Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan designates floodplains and wetlands along drainage tributaries and steep slope areas (15% or greater) as resource protection areas which form the basis for a comprehensive parks and open space system linked by the greenways along drainageways and pedestrian routes along thoroughfares. Orange County Subdivision Regulations require dedication of resource protection areas or payment in lieu of such dedication as a means of acquiring such areas. Section IV -B -7- b-6 of the Orange County Subdivision Regulations further stipulates that before approving a payment in lieu of dedication, the Board of Commissioners shall find that no recreation and/or open space sites have been designated on the adopted Comprehensive Plan for the property in question. As provided by the subdivision regulations, the minimum dedication of resource protection areas on the site is one - twentieth (1/20) of an acre for each dwelling unit. For two dwelling units, the required minimum dedication of resource protection area is 4,356 square feet. [In addition, the zoning ordinance requires a minimum recreation space ratio of .028 for lots within the Rural Buffer. The recreation space ratio for the five acres in Price Creek Estates that lie in Orange County is 6,098.4 square feet. The ordinance requires the difference between the area required for recreation and the area required to be dedicated for resource protection (in this case, 1,742.2 square feet) to be established as private recreation use for the residents of the development.] At one time the property was located entirely within Chatham County. Orange and Chatham Counties agreed on a new location of the county line in 1989. The boundary