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Orange County Planning Board Minutes (draft) October 7, 1998 10 b. Preliminary Plans (1) Price Creek Estates Presentation by Jim Hinkley. The northern portion of the proposed 21 -lot Price Creek Estates major subdivision straddles the Orange- Chatham County Line in Chapel Hill Township. Proposed lots 11 & 12 lie partially in Orange County. The 19 other lots have already received approval from Chatham County. Access to the proposed subdivision is exclusively through Orange County via Booth Road (SR 153 1) and newly named Amber Wood Run (changed from Price Creek Drive in the Concept Plan because of duplication), a proposed public residential street which intersects with Booth Road. The Orange County portions of Lots 11 & 12 (totaling five acres) are to be created from an existing parcel of record (Tax Map No. 7.120.39). A major subdivision application is required in Orange County because a new public road - Amber Wood Run - is being dedicated. The Orange County Fire Marshal and EMS indicate that the subdivision can be served adequately by their respective agencies. The Planning Board approved the Concept Plan at its meeting June 3, 1998 with the condition that the name Price Creek Drive must be changed to one that is not duplicative of other road names in Orange County. Please note that on the proposed Preliminary Plat the name of the road has been changed to Amber Wood Run. This new name has been approved by the Planning Staff. 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 1990 -91. The boundary was moved south approximately 240 feet. Booth Road runs into US 15 -501 in the Starpoint Community, just south of the Orange County Line near the Smith Level Road inteiseetion. 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 included in the abstract attachments explain how construction of the proposed road and future maintenance will be reviewed and implemented.