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Mauro Board of County Commissioners .. April 14, 1981 Page 3 commercial activity for Hillsborough and Hillsborough township should be considered. Give the County Land Use Plan's concentration on activity nodes as a desired approach.to locating commercial uses throughout the county, six activity nodes have been designated for Hillsborough and its transition areas: four existing urban nodes and two commercial activity nodes. Theissue iA whether these nodes both in location and number, represent a suitable level of Commercial activity in Hillsborough. By means of the joint,planning mechanism, the town and the county could formally approach this question and explore „,- appropriate policy responses..- • _ Although certain activity nodes will serve primarily local needs, some consideration shou: be given both to the relationship of the level of commercial activity in Hillsborough in generale toethe-,Countyewideelevel.andetheerele...of certain,activityenodes aseserving- PoPula beyond the immediate locality. The Daniel Boone, Hillsborough north and. H3-4 nodes in particular contain commercial uses which attract users from the rural townships north of Hillsborough as well as users traveling the I-85 and U.S. '70 corridor. Joint planning on provide for a corrdinated approach to the development of these activity nodes and to the associated impacts generated by these activities. Hillsborough currently has an industrial park located at the Brady/Orange Raceway site with eeeansion potential. Although the industrial park is within the transition area it is also within the area of the HB-4 activity node. It appears to be appropriate to en- courage the further industrial development of this site, and lands contiguous to this it E. MOBILE HOMES Currently in orange County mobile homes are treated as single family residential units without locational discrimination.. Hillsborough permits mobile homes in A-10 Residential Districts along with moderate density apartments where public utilities exist in the mobile home park district. This difference between county and town in the treat- ment of mobile homes and mobile home parks could be considered through the joint planning framework. The key question is the appropriateness of mobile homes and mobile home parks in the transition areas. F. WATER QUALITY/SUPPLY The Orange County Water Resources Task Force has examined the water demand/supply situati for central and northern Orange County. The Task Force's report indicates a potential • shortage of water for the town of Hillsborough by 1983, based on the safe yeild of Lake Ben Johnson. The county controls the water rights of Lake Orange which is upstream from the present Hillsborough supply. An arrangement between the county and the town would • constitute a mechanitm for further investigation of Hillsborough's future growth patterns and water needs and contribute to the formulation of the county's policy on the future • allocation of water from Lake Orange. • A potential future water supply source for central Orange County is the Seven Mile Creek site in Cheeks townnhip. After Cane Creek, this site is one of the largest potential. reservoir, sites remaining in Orange County. If developed it could serve as a potential uppiy source which would meet the town's water needs well beyond the year 2000. The Water ReSOUrCeS Teel: Force has identified Seven Mile Creek reservoir an a prime site and has recoemended that this site as well as several others be included in the plane for meeting future water demand. A significant portion of the area along 1-85 in Cheeks township drains into seven Mile Ci As this in an area with high potential for industrial development there is a possibility of water quality degradation in Corporation Lake and Lake Den Johnson and Seven Mile Crei