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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 # <br /> SUBJECT: HANNAH CREEK - PRELIMINARY PLAN <br /> ACTION BY: November 14, 1994 <br /> DEPARTMENT: PLANNING PUBLIC HEARING Yes _x_No <br /> ATTACHMENT(S) : INFORMATION CONTACT: Mary Willis <br /> Resolution of Approval Extension 2583 <br /> Application <br /> Vicinity Map TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br /> Comments from County Attorney Hillsborough - 732-8181 <br /> Private Road Justification Durham - 688-7331 <br /> Staff Evaluation of Mebane - 227-2031 <br /> Private Road Justification Chapel Hill - 967-9251 <br /> Fiscal Impact Analysis <br /> nrtnhar 17, 19444 Planning Rnard Minntaa <br /> PURPOSE: To consider the Preliminary Plan for Hannah Creek <br /> Subdivision. <br /> BACKGROUND: The property is located on the west side of High Rock Road <br /> (SR 1340) near the Orange-Alamance County line. It is <br /> zoned Agricultural Residential with an overlay district of <br /> Back-PW, and designated Agricultural Residential and Back <br /> Creek Watershed in the Land Use Element of the <br /> Comprehensive Plan. <br /> Land uses in the area include farming and a residential <br /> subdivision. The 1993 traffic count for High Rock Road <br /> was 400 trips per day. This count was taken south of this <br /> property close to Mill Creek Road (SR 1343) . <br /> The tract contains 84 .62 acres. A tributary of Back Creek <br /> flows through the western portion of the property. There <br /> is some open area on the south side of the creek, and the <br /> reminder of the tract is wooded. <br /> Concept Plan Review <br /> Forty-two (42) new residential lots were proposed. Twenty- <br /> seven of the lots contained from 1 to 1 1/2 acres. The <br />