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¢~ ~ ~J i included designating the Back Creek Watershed which drains into :._ Mebane's drinking water supply, as protected watershed, and shifting areas of the township between Agricultural Residential and Rural. Residential depending on trends in agricultural and forestry use, housing and population over the past seven years. Targan indicated on maps the areas that are proposed to change between R1 and AR and those to change between R1 and AR. The difference in residential development standards between R1 and AR is slight. Minimum lot sizes are the same at 40,000 square feet and setback requirements are the same. Of the. primary residential development standards only required road frontage changes - from 130 feet in R1 to 150 feet in AR. The similarity in the zoning standards represents the similarity in the Land Use Plan categories. An overlay district called Protected Watershed-II is proposed for the $ack Creek Watershed based on changes to the Land Use Plan mentioned previously. In addition, a portion of the Upper Eno Watershed not already zoned PW-II is proposed to rezone the overlay district. The Upper Eno is the drinking water supply watershed for Hillsborough and the Orange-Alamance Water System. The two additional restrictions PW-II places on development are a maximum impervious surface limit of 12~ and stream buffers along perennial streams of up to 150 feet. An area of the Upper Eno Watershed (indicated on the map) is proposed for Water Quality Critical Area. The restrictions in this zone are much more severe than in PW-II because runoff from this area drains directly into the Eno River, the various reservoirs and trunk streams below the first tributary, making control of potentially polluted runoff even more important. Restrictions include a minimum lot size for new lots of 80,000 square feet, an impervious surface limit of 6~ or approximately 5000 square feet on an 80,000 square foot lot, stream buffers on perennial and intermittent streams and a prohibition on commercial and industrial activity. Public Interest District zoning is proposed for a number of properties that are either publicly or quasi-publicly owned and that serve a public purpose such as education and research or environmental protection. These properties include Corporation Lake, a portion of the Lake Michael Park property, Moorefields and County-owned land in the Seven Mile Creek Basin. FID zoning generally precludes commercial, industrial or residential development. The Hillsborough division of Duke Forest is already zoned PxD. A comprehensive rezoning in order to achieve consistency between the Land Use Plan and the Zoning Atlas requires zoning changes for some two dozen commercial and industrial properties, most of which are in the US 70 corridor. Seven industrial parcels are being proposed for rezoning. Mare than half of these rezonings are of a lateral nature, reflecting location of the parcel relative to an activity node, rather than any change in standards. Orange Hosiery, Hancor, and Redman Industries would change from Existing Industrial to Industrial-1 Because they are located in an industrial activity node. Efland Milling and KDG Manufacturing would change from Industrial-1