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3~1 -.-.,_, The Eno Township Land Use Flan was also adopted July.S, 1988 and made several changes from the plan first adopted in 1981. These changes included designating the Little River Watershed as a Water Supply Watershed because it serves as a water supply for the City of Durham and reclassifying a large area of central Eno Township from Rural Residential to Agricultural Residential. Eno River State Park and Duke Forest were originally classified as Public Interest Areas in the 1981 plan. This was reaffirmed in the Central Orange Area Study which covered a small portion of western Eno Township and was adopted in 1983 and in the 1988 plan. One of the policies embodied in the Land Use Element of the Orange County Comprehensive Plan is that commercial activity should be confined to activity nodes, generally focused on major intersections. One such node in Eno Township adopted in 1981 centered on the intersection of I-$5 and US 70. The 1988 plan rolled back the node, making I-85 and US 70 its northern boundary. Three commercial parcels on the north side of I-85 are stilled zoned as though they were inside an activity node. - A portion of one parcel on St. Mary's Road zoned EC-5 no longer contains a commercial use. Because it is not in a node, staff proposes that the zoning revert to the surrounding residential classification. Based on that background several rezonings have been proposed in Eno Township in order to bring the Orange County Zoning Atlas into conformance with the Land Use Element of the Orange County Comprehensive Plan. The first is to designate the Little River Watershed as a PW-II overlay district i.n the same manner as being done in Hillsborough Township. The second change would be to rezone all Duke Forest Lands in the township, along with Eno River State Park from either R-1 Residential or Agricultural Residential to Public Interest District. Approximately 1500 acres in an area roughly bounded by Palmers Grove Road on the west, US 70 on the south, Pleasant Green Road on the east, and an AT&T easement on the north, excluding Brigadoon Subdivision, is proposed to be changed from R-1 Residential to Agricultural Residential. The change in the land use plan that led to this proposal involved .a slower growth rate than other rural portions of the township and a desire to use roads rather than easements as district boundaries. The fourth change would be to rezone Whispering Pines Subdivision from R-1 Residential to R-2 Residential. Whispering Pines was built prior to zoning in Eno Township at lot sizes less than the current R-1 zoning making the area non-conforming. This change would eliminate the non-conforming designation. Even though lot sizes are only required to be 20,000 square feet in R-2, as opposed to 40,000 square feet in R-l, the