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~flo Staff presentation by Marvin Collins. _,:,, ~ Collins began the presentation by emphasizing that this item is NOT a rezoning, NOT a Special Use Permit nor any kind of site approval. It is ~i simply an application for a Land Use Plan amendment. If the application for the Plan amendment is approved, the applicant would return at a later paint in time with a specific rezoning request or a Planned Development Application which is a combination rezoning and Special Use Permit approval procedure. The property in question is located south of the Southern Railroad on both sides of 01d NC 10 (SR 1710), It is known as lot 20 of Orange County Tax Map 27-Eno Township and lots 47 and 48 of Orange County Tax t Map 26-Eno Township. The property contains 575 acres or 25,047,000 ~ square feet. The property fronts on New Hope Church Road for a distance of 2900 feet and on Old NC 10 for a distance of 4920 feet. The current zoning designation of the property is R-1 Residential, Collins identified the location of the property on maps. The applicant is requesting that 100 acres of the property at the intersection of Old NC 10 (SR 1710) and New Hope Church Road (SR 1723) be re-designated in the Eno and Chapel Hill Township Components of the Comprehensive Plan from Rural Residential, Agricultural Use and Resource Conservation to Ten-Year Transition, The purpose of the request is to allow the applicant to make application for approval of a planned residential and golf community. Collins referenced a Staff Report which had been provided to the Board of ~~ Commissioners which addresses the application requirements and the ~ -" compliance of the applicant and also addresses standards contained in the Orange County Land Use Plan which identify the circumstances under which a Ten-Year Transition Area should be applied. (This report is an attachment to these minutes on pages3L~-3,"31) , One of the things that the applicant must address in the application is whether or not there axe changed or changing conditions within the area which would warrant an amendment to the Plan. The applicant has cited the changing nature of the use of the property as one reason for amending the Comprehensive Plan. A dairy farm that occupied part of the site has been inoperable for years, Although shown on the Eno and Chapel Hill Township Land Use Plans as agricultural, the classification was based on the use value designation of the property. While a large portion of the property on the north side of Old NC 10 is leased for agricultural purposes, a 160-acre tract on the south side of the road is available for sale. The availability of large tracts of land which can be combined into a larger parcel provides the applicant with the ability to "master plan" the site in a manner which preserves the rural, open character of the area, Collins explained that there are principal and secondary amendments and this particular application falls into the secondary amendment category. It seeks to expand an existing plan designation where the additional area