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1 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: March 8, 1995 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item #yam <br /> SUBJECT: Phase B Watkins Farm - Preliminary Plan <br /> ACTION BY: April 22, 1995 <br /> DEPARTMENT: Planning PUBLIC HEARING Yes X No <br /> ATTACHMENT(S) : INFORMATION CONTACT: Eddie Kirk <br /> Extension 2582 <br /> Resolution of Approval <br /> Application <br /> Vicinity Map TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br /> Private Road Justification Hillsborough - 732-8181 <br /> Staff Evaluation of Private Durham - 688-7331 <br /> Road Justification Mebane - 227-2031 <br /> Preliminary Plan Chapel Hill - 967-9251 <br /> Draft 2/20/95 Planning Board Minutes <br /> PURPOSE: To consider the Preliminary Plan for Phase B Watkins <br /> Farm Subdivision. <br /> BACKGROUND: The property is located on the west side of New Sharon <br /> Church Road (SR 1538) . It is zoned Agricultural <br /> Residential with an overlay district of L-ENO-PW, and <br /> designated Agricultural Residential and Lower Eno <br /> Watershed in the Land Use Element of the Comprehensive <br /> Plan. <br /> Land uses in the area include farming and scattered <br /> residential houses. A 1993 traffic count for New <br /> Sharon Church Road indicated 900 trips per day. This <br /> count was taken just south of Schley Road, which is <br /> north of this property. <br /> This tract contains 17. 61 acres. Six (6) new <br /> residential lots are proposed. Lots range in size from <br /> 2.25 acres to 4. 11 acres. The average lot size is 2.94 <br /> acres. Two streams flow through the property with <br /> stream buffers indicated. <br />