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The balance of the land area in Chapel Hill Township outside the town's <br /> planning jurisdiction's is divided into three classifications : Agricultural <br /> Residential , Rural Residential , Public Interest Areas, 10-year Transition, <br /> 20 •year Transition, Environmentally Sensitive, Reservoir Protection and <br /> Rural Buffer. The Agricultural Residential areas are located on the western <br /> • boundary of the Township adjacent to Bingham Township. In general , these <br /> areas are presently being farmed or used for pasture land. Designation as <br /> • <br /> Agriculture Residential means this land should remain in agricultural use <br /> With non-farm development limited to those uses which would serve and support <br /> the farming population. <br /> The Duke Forest tracts and the buffer around University Lake have been <br /> designated as Public Interest Areas. These areas are unique because they are <br /> being held, in effect, as open space and are used in the case of the Duke <br /> Forest tracts as laboratories for environmental research. The Environmentally <br /> Sensitive Areas include the 100-year floodplains and the steep slopes are <br /> described in the Township Profile Summary. The watershed for University Lake <br /> in the southwestern portion of the Township is classified as Reservoir Protec- <br /> tion. The 10-year Residential Transition Area begins at the north side of the <br /> Chapel Hill-Carrboro planning jurisdiction line and extends northward generally <br /> to Homestead Road west of NC86 and to the electrical power line right-of-way <br /> just north of Weaver Dairy Road on the East side of NC86. The 20-year Residen- <br /> tial Transition Area extends north of this area to Whitfield Road and Eubanks <br /> Road. Other than the activity nodes which were described, these areas will <br /> develop as higher and medium density residential , serviced by water and sewer <br /> lines. Taken together, the 10 and 20 year Residential Transition Areas encompass <br /> a total of 6031 areas. In order to acknowledge potential variations in land <br /> availability and to allow for market choice, the amount of Transition acreage <br /> allocated is approximately three times the <br />