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10 , • STONEY CREEK SMALL AREA PLAN Community Open House at New Hope Elementary School March 21, 1996 Introduction The Orange County Commissioners appointed the Stoney Creek Small In the past year a group of 22 citizens Area Planning Group (see roster at has worked on a land use plan for the end) to develop a land use plan - and Stoney Creek area that achieves two recommendations for how it might be goals: implemented - for the 4,700 acre area southeast of Hillsborough. Before the • Protects the rights that plan can be considered for adoption landowners have now to derive by the County Commissioners, it value from their land. The plan must be presented at public hearing does = take away any of the and receive Planning Board review. development options a landowner now has and does = downzone The Stoney Creek Plan the area; and Citizens lobbied to get this planning • Protects the area's "rural process started because suburban- character" by adding new, style conventional developments are voluntary options for how spreading and could overtake the landowners can develop their land. remaining rural aspects of the Stoney Creek area. What is a Land Use Plan? The Planning Group identified key It is a statement of the County's resource areas and then identified goals, policies, and recommendations levels of land-use intensity that would regarding future land development. help protect these resources. The As an official public document resources include Duke Forest, the adopted by the Board of County Stoney Creek Wildlife Corridor, New Commissioners, it reflects general Hope Presbyterian Church lands, consensus about how, when, and scenic road corridors, and existing where the County should encourage farmland and neighborhoods. Three or discourage future development and levels of land-use intensity (lower, is embodied in map and tent form. intermediate, and higher) are being recommended for different parts of