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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS 0 J ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: November 24. 1986 Item#_ SUBJECT: Z-9-86 ORANGE COUNTY (DESIGNATION OF RURAL BUFFER AREA) *************************************************************************** DEPARTMENT: PLANNING PUBLIC HEARING: Y Yes No *************************************************************************** ATTACHMENTS: Location Map; CONTACT: Marvin Collins Certificate of Mailing. TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough 732-8181 Chapel Hill 967-9251 Durham 688-7331 Mebane 227--2031 *************************************************************************** PURPOSE: To receive public comment on the of approximately proposed rezoning pproximately 35.000 acres from Rural Residential (R-1) and Agricultural Residential classification. proposed Rural new zoning district lBuffer (RB) NEED: On October 13. 1986, the Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan was adopted. As part of the Plan, a Rural Buffer land use designation was approved with a minimum lot size requirement of two (2) acres per dwelling unit. The area in question is located adjacent to the Towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro and is bounded generally by Interstate 40, Clyde Road. Eubanks Road, Rogers Road and Homestead Road on the south; Cornwallis Road, Murphey School Road. Brockwell Road. the University Railroad, N.C. 86. Davis Road and Tree Farm Road to the north; the Durham County line to the east; and Dodsons Crossroads, Carl Durham Road and Ferguson Road to the west. The area also includes the portion of Orange County known as the "Southern Triangle" bounded by the Durham and Chatham County lines. and the Town of Chapel Hill extraterritorial planning jurisdiction. The present zoning of the area is Agricultural-Residential (AR) and Rural Residential (R-1) . Portions of the area situated in University Lake watershed are also located in overlay zoning districts, Protected Watershed