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t 043 appropriate for this project. (Payment-in-lieu recommended was initially $12.823, now $10,702, based on 120 units. Payment-in-lieu based on 1987 assessed valuation as required by ordinance. County considered method used by Chapel Hill in determining payment-in-lieu at time ordinance was under consideration for adoption but elected to use "assessed valuation" method. JPA Agreement indicates that Orange County standards will be followed.) 3 . Proposed development is inappropriately located with respect to pattern and timing of existing and proposed development in the Comprehensive Plan, and with repsect to public and private facilities existing or clearly to be available by the time the development reaches the stage where they will be needed. (JPA Land Use Plan adopted 10-13-86 designates area as Office-Institutional. Chapel Hill plan designates Mixed- Use, a similar designation. Orange County Zoning Ordinance permits single-family and multi-family development in 0-I district. Chapel Hill "Mixed-Use" designation permits similar uses. Area south of Eubanks Road is designated "Suburban Residential", permitting 1-5 units per acre. Chapel Hill Interim Land Use Plan recommends "Medium Density" residential, permitting 4-8 units per acre. Proposed density of 6.25 units per acre, based on 120 units, is in keeping with pattern of development. Council Member Preston indicated a preference of 33% site coverage. The applicant, by reducing the number of units, had reduced site coverage to 45% from 48%. The MTC District requires 25% of site to be left in open space. The 55% open space area proposed by the applicant through buffers and recreation areas is more than double that required by ordinance. Concerns about timing and the availability of public facilities are met either through assurances of service by OWASA or through the phasing of the project with respect to 1-40 completion. The applicant testified at the public hearing that the project phasing completion dates were off by as much as six months. With the reduction in number of units, traffic generation would be reduced from 1068 trips per day to 936 trips. If reductions in units were made in Phase 5, 26 units, and Phase 6, 23 units, and project phasing were moved back six months, total traffic from the project using 1-40 prior to its opening in the summer of 1989 would be 468 trips. This would represent 50% of total project traffic. The Staff report also indicated that 40% of all trips would be during peak hours or travel-to-work periods. The remaining 60% of trips for shopping and entertainment- 562-would be during non-peak hours. Based on the revised phasing referenced above, 187 trips per day would be during peak hour periods prior to the opening of 1-40.