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t � t; <br /> COMPLIES. This area is sparsely developed with single family <br /> homes and manufactured housing. <br /> HISTORIC AND CULTURAL. Located away from areas where development <br /> would have a detrimental impact on state or federally acknowledged <br /> historic-cultural sites or County identified Public Interest Areas. <br /> COMPLIES. There are no state or federally acknowledged <br /> historic/cultural sites or County-identified Public Interest <br /> Areas in the vicinity of the proposed amendment. There are <br /> however, 2 churches, one cemetery, and one community site in <br /> the area as identified in the 1986 "Inventory of Sites of <br /> Cultural, Historical,.Recreational, Biological, and Geological <br /> Significance in the Unincorporated Portions of Orange County". <br /> Hickory Grove Baptist Church and Bethel Baptist Church are <br /> located approximately one-half mile northeast of the proposed <br /> operation. The Tarheel Sertoma Club and an unnamed cemetery <br /> are approximately three-fourths of a mile west of this site. <br /> COMPATIBILITY OF AMENDMENT WITH EXISTING JPA POLICY <br /> The applicant has indicated that the amendment is not in response <br /> to a change in policies, objectives, principles or standards <br /> governing the physical development of the County. It is therefore <br /> appropriate to analyze the amendment within the framework of the <br /> Operating Principles of the Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan. <br /> These policy statements are listed on pages 52 and 53 of the Plan. <br /> As with the location standards analyses, COMPLIES means that the <br /> area being evaluated is compatible with the policy or policies. <br /> DOE8 NOT COMPLY means it is not. Additional explanation is provided <br /> where the response is not clear cut. <br /> OPEN SPACE <br /> 1) The existing open space system in Chapel Hill Township, which <br /> includes Duke Forest Lands, the UNC buffer around University <br /> Lake,. the Morgan Creek Wildlife area, and existing <br /> agricultural and forest land, should be protected from <br /> intrusion by incompatible land uses. (OC) <br /> QUESTIONABLE. The expansion of the quarry is a departure from <br /> the desired land uses within the Rural Buffer. However, it <br /> must be remembered that a quarry operation has existed on this <br /> site for a significant period, and the classification of <br /> Extractive Uses was created to accommodate this particular <br /> 13 <br />