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m Orange County TDR Implementation Planning Strategic Growth and Rural Conservation Program Design Specifications Under Orange County's Growth and Rural Conservation Program, owners of property in designated Growth Areas ( "GA "s) may be eligible for administratively - awarded density bonuses for development of their GA property (i.e., to allow development at a higher density than allowed as -by -right under their current zoning designation) when they purchase an approved conservation easement on an eligible property in a designated Conservation Area ( "CA "). This document describes how the program is designed. Administrative procedures for participating in the program are outlined in a separate document. 1. Designated Areas. Non - overlapping Growth Areas and Conservation Areas are designated by boundaries as drawn on an official (adopted) Strategic Growth and Rural Conservation Program Map, such that all tax parcels within the County's land regulatory jurisdiction are designated as either within a Growth Area or within a Conservation Area', as follows: a. The following constitute Growth Areas (except as noted below): i. Land within Economic Development Zoning Districts; ii. Land within the Rural Community Nodes as depicted in the County's Comprehensive Plan Land Use Element; iii. Land within the 10 -yr and 20 -yr Urbanizing Transition Areas in the Efland- Mebane area in the County's Comprehensive Plan Land Use Element; iv. Land within the County jurisdiction joint planning areas as depicted in the proposed Hillsborough Strategic Plan; v. Land within the Hillsborough Transition areas as depicted in the proposed Hillsborough Strategic Plan. b. Properties are excluded from Growth Areas and are designated as Conservation Areas if any of these criteria are met: ii. Property is on the National Historic Register, or is otherwise designated locally, or at the state or federal level as a historic site or as containing a historic structure; iii. Property contains environmentally sensitive features or areas: 2. Is in a Water Supply Watershed designated Critical Area; 3. Contains land that is within 150 feet of the main body (impounded or free - flowing) or perennial stream of any of the County's river systems; 4. Contains a wetland (as identified by the presence of hydric soils); 5. Contains a Natural Heritage Inventory site (as identified by the state's NHI maps); 6. Contains a Prime Rated Forest Habitat area (as identified by the County's Dept. of Environmental Resource Conservation maps); or, i Some tax parcels may be partially within and partially outside of the zoning and other planning boundaries used to designate Growth Areas, and as such, may have a portion of the tax parcel in a Growth Area and another portion in a Conservation Area. ❑ = Recommended Course of Action 2