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Orahge County Planning Board Minutes July 2 , 1997 17 MOTION: Walters moved approval as recommended by the Planning Staff. Seconded by Price. VOTE: Unanimous. (4) Oxbow Crossing (Chapel Hill Township-27 Lots) Presentation by Jim Hinkley. The proposed subdivision is located at the southeast comer of Dairyland Road and Bethel-Hickory Grove Church Road. The proposed development is composed of three parcels of record ranging in size from 22 to 38 acres. The total tract consists of 97.11 acres. The 27-lot proposal is skirted on the east by Morgan Creek which flows directly into the University Lake Reservoir. The creek has been designated as a greenway in the Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan and as a wildlife corridor in the 1988 Inventory of the Natural Areas and Wildlife Habitats of Orange County. N-C— The property is zoned RB(UNIV-PW)-Rural Buffer(University Lake Protected Watershed). (Flexible Development regulations do not apply in the Rural Buffer.) All lots will be served by new public roads,with driveways limited to interior streets. No lot will have direct access to Bethel-Hickory Grove Church Road. Current access to the existing residence on lot#12 will be abandoned and a new access will be provided to Oxbow Crossing Road. Lots#8,#9,&#10 and lots#22&#23 will share joint driveways as shown on the preliminary plan and documents have been prepared for recordation. The calculated stream buffer width adjacent to Morgan Creek ranges from 70 to 155 feet beyond the 100-year flood line,depending on vegetative cover type and percent-of-slope calculations. Including the floodplain,the stream buffer line lies 200 feet from the creek to the rear of lot#2 just south of Dairyland Road. The floodplain and buffer widen to 450 feet in the broad meander behind lot#5 where publicly dedicated,passive recreation land belongs to Orange County. In the Concept Plan,the applicant proposed public and private open space adjacent to Morgan Creek. This space is designated as a greenway location in the Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan. Orange County holds passive recreation easements and owns properties along Morgan Creek which were acquired during the subdivision of Durham Estates and Laurel Springs. Greenway dedication was required along Morgan Creek for adjacent subdivisions. The applicant proposed dedication of 1.3 acres in a 22-foot wide private open space corridor to Orange County for public recreation as required by Section IV-B-7-b-2 of the Subdivision Regulations.