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B. IEOUESTED CEIANGE TO LAND USE ELEr, .NT The inPlicant is requesting that Ne property be m -designated Agricultural Residential (Upper Ew Watershed Crifical Area) from its covert category of Public Interest Area (Upper Eno Watershed Critical Area). Agricultural Residential is descnbed in the Land Use Element as "land in the rural areas where the prevailing land use activities are related to the land (agriculture, foresrry) and which is an appropriate locationfor the condonation of these mei'(Sation 3.3). The current designation is Public Interest Area, which is "land which contains public or quasi.publtc uses such as publicly- owned land research forests or brown archaeological or historic sites." The property 's location widdn the Upper Eno Watershed Critical Area would apply to either district. This watershM overlay district applies to lands widen one-half mile of an existing or proposed water supply impoundment. Corporation lake, which provides water to customers of the Orange- Alamance Water Synem, is approximately 500 feet from One property line of Ws parcel. Long -term plans of Orange- Algormme to miss the dam at Corporation fake could term as this property Mining the lake itself at some point in We fume. Application tegdremenb for an amendment to she Comprehensive Plan are contained in Articles 2 and 20 of the Lacing Otdiance. Listed below are the applicable requirements, followed by information Provided by dw applicants andlm smtycomments (shown in bold). Amendment Radovle Article 2.2.14 awes the reasua for which We Comprehensive Plan may he amended: a. "Because of changed or changing conditions in a particular goes afUs County." No specific mention of chaoLdfehaLmg couditiom v made. The applicant vita Duke University's Intent to sell thin property, and sates due marketing of the site her been difficult given We probibtioo of tealdenMW use W Public Internet Disiries s. Duke abo ivdicates that fie property is not in he used for forest research. Thn b conshtent with Duke's 1988 Repart and which Ivdleaees Mile propery a Cheat IV (Residual Endowment WA cestegorittd a had which "will no longer he enndtleted part of Dub Forest", m be coed to "generate financial remro or o0er bi o ifits_to We UdrenBy.^ b. *To portion an name or omission in We Comprehensive Plus." No error or omission m Ne Plan w tied by the appiim4 ahhougb quatioos about the subsequent Public Interest District well art nieed by We applicant The Public lumat Are plan designation bat been he pipe Mien the Land Use Plan wait adopted he 1981. Since rowing in a seaooday action m dalpeatlop he the Land Use Element 2