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4 <br /> i <br /> 1 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: May 5. 1997 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item# 8.k <br /> SUBJECT: BELMONT SUBDIVISION-PRELIMINARY PLAN <br /> ACTION BY: June 19, 1997 <br /> DEPARTMENT: Planning& Inspections PUBLIC HEARING: Yes_X—No <br /> BUDGET AMENDMENT REQUIRED: Yes_X No <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: Eddie Kirk <br /> Resolution of Approval Extension 2582 <br /> Application <br /> Vicinity Map <br /> Fiscal Impact Analysis TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br /> Preliminary Plan Hillsborough - 732-8181 <br /> Draft 4/2/97 Planning Board Minutes Durham - 688-7331 <br /> Mebane - 227-2031 <br /> Chapel Hill - 967-9251 <br /> PURPOSE: Consideration of the Preliminary Plan for Belmont Subdivision. <br /> BACKGROUND: The property is located in Cheeks Township at the northern end of Moorefields <br /> Road (SR 1135) west of Dimmocks Mill Road(SR 1136). The current zoning is <br /> Agricultural Residential and Upper Eno Protected Watershed. It is across the road <br /> from the entrance to Moorefields National Register Historic Site. Moorefields Road <br /> is currently being paved with the exception of the portion from the northern curve to <br /> the northern bridge over Rocky Run where right-of-way was not available. <br /> Belmont is the first subdivision to be submitted under the Flexible Development <br /> regulations which went into effect July 1. The total acreage of the tract is 23.65 <br /> acres. Approximately one half of the property is wooded. The site slopes gently <br /> toward the center,then east toward Rocky Run, a perennial stream flowing north to <br /> join Seven Mile Creek. There is considerable (2.98 acres) in the floodplain on <br /> Rocky Run which is protected by a required stream buffer. Slopes over fifteen <br /> percent are limited to an area adjacent to the floodplain and are also protected by the <br /> stream buffer. <br />