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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: March 4, 1998 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item # g- Cy <br />SUBJECT: Dry Run Subdivision - Preliminary Plan <br />ACTION BY: April 18, 1998 <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning <br />& Inspections PUBLIC HEARING: Yes _x—No <br />BUDGET AMENDMENT REQUIRED: Yes _x —No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Eddie Kirk <br />Resolution of Approval <br />Extension 2582 <br />Application <br />Vicinity Map <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Private Road Justification <br />Hillsborough 732 -8181 <br />Staff Evaluation of Private Road Justification Durham 688 -7331 <br />Fiscal Impact Analysis <br />Mebane 227 -2031 <br />Preliminary Plan <br />Chapel Hill 967 -9251 <br />Draft 2/4/98 Planning Board Minutes <br />PURPOSE: <br />Consideration of the Preliminary Plan for Dry Run Subdivision. <br />BACKGROUND: <br />The property is located in the northwest corner of Hillsborough Township 600 <br />feet south of Kenion Road (SR 1335), 900 feet west of NC Highway 86 North. <br />The current zoning is Agricultural Residential and Upper Eno Protected <br />Watershed. <br />The total acreage of the tract is 17.40 acres. The property is wooded with a <br />mixture of pines and hardwoods. Moderate slopes end at Dry Run, an intermittent <br />stream flowing southwest approximately two and a half miles to join the Eno <br />River. Most of the slopes over fifteen percent are found adjacent to the stream <br />and are protected by the required stream buffer. Rock outcrops are also located in <br />a portion of the stream buffer on the south side of the stream. <br />