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2 s Lots #8, #9, & #10 and lots #22 & #23 will share joint driveways as shown on the preliminary plan. Documents for shared driveways have been prepared for recordation. The calculated stream buffer width adjacent to Morgan Creek ranges from 70 to 155 feet beyond the 100-year floodplain 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 public dedicated passive recreation land belongs to Orange County. In the Concept Plan for the subdivision, 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. These are shown on the Preliminary Plan. Greenway dedication was required along Morgan Creek for adjacent subdivisions. The Preliminary Plan illustrates these other recreation dedications acquired by the County during subdivision of tracts adjacent to the creek on the east side. In the Durham Estates Subdivision, a 60-foot public greenway easement was dedicated in 1990 and deeded to the County to provide access from Dairyland Road to a 2.6-acre parcel located on both sides of the creek. In the Laurel Springs Subdivision, a 60-foot public greenway easement--to the south of the abovementioned County-owned land--was dedicated during development in 1986. This easement runs for about 500 feet along both sides of the creek and then solely on the east side. The proposed subdivision lies within the Chapel Hill District Park Service Area. 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. The Recreation and Parks Advisory Council considered the applicant's proposal to dedicate recreation land at its March 4, 1997 meeting. It recommended that payment be made in lieu because previous dedications in Durham Estates and Laurel Springs had already created a continuous greenway along the entire length of Morgan Creek from Dairyland Road to the southern boundary of the property. The calculated amount will be $10,920 (minutes attached). The preliminary plan delineates a 100-meter wide (328 feet) wildlife corridor on the west side of Morgan Creek, encompassing from 1/3 to 2/a of the area of each of the nine five-acre lots lying between Oxbow Crossing Road and the southwestern bank of Morgan Creek. The creek is a major link in the County's wildlife corridor network, connecting three natural areas: Pickards Mountain to the northwest, Calvander Bluff and Bottom just to the southeast, and McCauley's Mountain at University Lake farther to the southeast. The wildlife corridor would be protected from building construction, fences, and other physical obstructions, clearing of vegetation, and other activities which could inhibit its function as a wildlife habitat and corridor linking with other