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a <br /> 1 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: August 20, 1996 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item#_ <br /> SUBJECT: La Mesa Subdivision,Phase II-Preliminary Plan <br /> ACTION BY: October 20, 1996 <br /> DEPARTMENT: Planning&Inspections PUBLIC HEARING: Yes—X—No <br /> BUDGET AMENDMENT REQUIRED: Yes—X—No <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: Emily Cameron <br /> Resolution of Approval Extension 2580 <br /> Application <br /> Vicinity Map <br /> Preliminary Plan TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br /> Fiscal Impact Analysis Hillsborough -732-8181 <br /> 8/7/96 Draft Planning Board Minutes Durham -688-7331 <br /> Mebane -227-2031 <br /> Chapel Hill -967-9251 <br /> PURPOSE: Consideration of the Preliminary Plan for La Mesa Subdivision,Phase II. <br /> BACKGROUND: The property is located in the northeast corner of the county south of Bacon Road(SR 153 1) <br /> between NC Highway 57 and the Person County line. The total acreage of the tract is 72.65 <br /> acres. It is currently zoned Agricultural Residential and Flat River Protected Watershed. In the <br /> Land Use Element of the Comprehensive Plan it is designated as Agricultural Residential and <br /> Water Supply Watershed. <br /> The property was part of a farm over twenty years ago.Former fields are now covered by typical <br /> early successional growth. Slopes are gentle except along two intermittent streams(one is not <br /> shown in Phase III) which flow generally east and southeast where limited slopes approach <br /> twenty percent(20%). The soils are typical for Orange County with moderate limitations for <br /> _septic systems,dwellings, and road construction. <br /> A Preliminary Plan for La Mesa was approved by the Board of Commissioners in August 1989. <br /> The Final Plat for Phase I containing eight(8) lots was approved in December of that year. <br /> Approval of the Preliminary Plan expired one year later because susequent final plats were not <br /> submitted.. <br /> The applicant is now seeking approval of Phase II which contains 45.38 acres to be divided into <br /> twenty(20)new residential lots.Lot sizes are between 0.98 and 6.2 acres.Each lot will have an <br /> individual well and septic system.Lot 16 does not have a site approved by Environmental Health <br />