Report on Amendments to the Carrboro Land Use Ordinance for Implementation to the Facilitated Small Area Plan for Carrboro's Northern Study Area

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........... areas-shall be designated as open space. 2 3 (d) Subsection 15-198(g)is amended to read as follows: 4 5 (g) A developer shall not be required to set aside as open space under the 6 provisions of subsections (d) and (e) more than the minimum required 7 percentage of open space set forth in subsection (c). If the sum total of open 8 space otherwise required under the provisions of subsections (d) and (e) 9 exceeds forty percent of the development tact (twenty percent in the R-2 10 district), then the permit issuing authority shall allow the developer to set I I aside a smaller area of open space under subsections (d) and (e), individually 12 or collectively, so that the developer is not required to preserve as open space 13 more than forty percent of the development tract (twenty percent in the R-2 14 district). However, if areas that constitute primary conservation areas have 15 not been set aside as open space, then the development plans shall otherwise 16 provide for the preservation of such areas even though they may be located 17 within privately owned lots (e.g. by specifying buildable areas within 18 individual lots). Notwithstanding the foregoing,hardwood areas identified on 19 the Carrboro Natural Constraints Map that are not set aside as common open 20 space shall be preserved except to the extent that removal of such hardwood 21 trees is necessary to accommodate the permitted uses created out of land not 22 set aside as common open space. 23 24 (e) Subsection 15-198(h)is amended to read: 25 26 (h) If the area of open space required to be preserved under subsections (d) and 27 (e)does not exceed forty percent(40%) of the area of the development tract(20% in the R-2 28 district), then the permit issuing authority may require that the developer set aside from 29 among the areas that constitute secondary conservation areas as defined above an amount of 30 open space equal to the difference between the amount of open space preserved under 31 subsections (d) and (e) and forty percent (40%) of the development tract (20% in the R-2 32 district). 33 34 (f) Subsection 15-198(b)(3)is amended by adding a new subsection"c"to read as follows: 35 36 (c) Areas used for the growing of crops,such as hay, com,or vegetables, if and to 37 the extent that such uses occur within an area that is subject to the control of a homeowners 38 association and such uses are approved by the homeowners association. 39 40 SECTION 4. Article K Part I,is amended by adding a new Section 15-141.2 to read as follows: 41 42 Section 15-141.2 Village Mixed Use District Established 43 44 (a) There is hereby established a Village Mixed Use (VMU) district. This district is established 45 to provide for the development of rural new villages at a scale intended to continue Carrboro's small town 46 character as described in its Year 2000 Task Force Report and to promote a traditional concept of villages. ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... (Page 5 of 35