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O R A N G E C O U N T Y <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date N'ovalitt& , 32 1986 <br /> Act i en <br /> ds <br /> Item k, r SUBJECT: Me l -Oa k Es tates Phase 4 - <br /> Preliminary Plan <br /> DEPARTMENT: PLANNING PUBLIC HEARING Yes _,I__ No <br /> Attachment(s) information Contact: Eddie Kirk <br /> Application <br /> Vicinity M'ap <br /> Preliminary Plans <br /> Draft 10.20-86 Planning Board Minutes <br /> Telephone Numbers <br /> Hillsborough 732-8181 <br /> Durham - 688-7331 <br /> Mebane - 227-2031 <br /> Chapel Hill - 968-4501 <br /> PURPOSE: To consider approval of Mel -Oak Estates Phase 4 for <br /> prelimiinary plan approval . <br /> NEED: The property in question is known as Lot 30B of Tax Map 117 <br /> in Chapel Hill Township . The developer (Calvin Mellott) is <br /> requesting approval of a preliminary plan the Mel -Oak <br /> Estates-Phase 4 to allow six lots, each approximately 40,000 <br /> square feet . The property is located in the Rural Buffer <br /> which presently requires a two acre minimum lot size. Th. <br /> developer is requesting the Planning oard to consider <br /> approval of the six-lot design since Mel -Oaks has been an <br /> on-going subdivision . <br /> Compliance with the two-acre minimum lot size, would reduce <br /> the number of lots in Phase 4 to three . A plan showing <br /> Phase 4 designed to comply with the two acre minimum has <br /> been prepared. In both designs for Phase 4 Mel -Oaks Trail <br /> is constructed to State standards. <br /> The 6.3 acre tract is zoned R-1 and is located in the Uni- <br /> versity Lake Watershed. It its designated Rural Buffer and <br /> Protected Watershed li in the Joint Planniing Land Use Plan . <br /> IMPACT: Application of the two acre minimum lot size will have a <br /> significant impact on this request. Approval of the request <br /> would allow the development of six additional lots in the <br /> subdivision. This would result in an additional 60 trips <br /> per day entering onto Jones Ferry Road, bringing the total <br /> trips per day for Mel -Oaks II to 147. Application of the <br /> two acre minimum lot size would reduce the number of add ! - <br />