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1 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: November 1, 1994 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item # V -E <br /> SUBJECT: DEER RIDGE - PRELIMINARY PLAN <br /> ACTION BY: December 10, 1994 <br /> DEPARTMENT: PLANNING PUBLIC HEARING Yes X No <br /> ATTACHMENT(S) : INFORMATION CONTACT: Eddie Kirk <br /> Extension 2582 <br /> Resolution of Approval <br /> Application <br /> Vicinity Map TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br /> Cluster Narrative Hillsborough - 732-8181 <br /> Staff Analysis Durham - 688-7331 <br /> Preliminary Plan Mebane - 227-2031 <br /> Draft 10/17/94 Planning Board Minutes Chapel Hill - 967-9251 <br /> PURPOSE: To approve the Preliminary Plan for Deer Ridge. <br /> BACKGROUND: The property is located north of the Heartwood at <br /> Blackwood Mountain Planned Development off Mill House <br /> Road (SR 1725) in Chapel Hill Township. It is zoned <br /> Rural Buffer and designated Rural Buffer in the Land <br /> Use Element of the Comprehensive Plan for Orange <br /> County. <br /> The property is wooded with Duke Forest to the west and <br /> Emerson Waldorf school to the east. The tract is <br /> 19. 534 acres in size with eight (8) new residential <br /> lots proposed. <br /> Access to seven of the proposed lots will be provided <br /> by extending Blackwood Mountain Road, which is an <br /> existing public road. The other lot will be served by <br /> Pathway Court which is an existing private right-of-way <br /> developed with Heartwood at Blackwood Mountain. The <br /> Heartwood Development accesses onto Mill House Road. <br /> In 1992 a traffic count on Mill House Road indicated <br /> 390 trips per day near the intersection with N.C. 86. <br />