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1 <br /> O R A N G E C O U N T Y <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: February 16, 1993 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item # )7L-E <br /> SUBJECT: MINCEY FARM - PRELIMINARY PLAN <br /> ACTION BY: April 2, 1993 <br /> DEPARTMENT: PLANNING PUBLIC HEARING: Yes X No <br /> ATTACHMENT(S) : INFORMATION CONTACT: Emily Cameron <br /> Resolution of Approval Extension 2580 <br /> Application <br /> Vicinity Map <br /> Preliminary Plan <br /> Fiscal Impact Analysis TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br /> 1/25/93 Draft Planning Hillsborough - 732-8181 <br /> Board Minutes Durham - 688-7331 <br /> Mebane - 227-2031 <br /> Chapel Hill - 967-9251/968-4501 <br /> PURPOSE: Consideration of the Preliminary Plan for Mincey Farm <br /> Subdivision. <br /> BACKGROUND: The property is located in Cedar Grove and Little <br /> River Townships on the west side of NC Highway 57 <br /> between Mincey Road (SR 1552) and Latta Road (SR <br /> 1550 ) . It is designated as Agricultural Residential in <br /> the Land Use Element of the Comprehensive Plan. <br /> Adjacent land uses are agricultural and residential. <br /> In 1991, the traffic count for NC Highway 57 was 2500 <br /> trips per day. <br /> A minor subdivision for Mincey Farm was recently <br /> approved to create five (5) lots on new private roads . <br /> The major subdivision application is to divide two of <br /> the larger lots containing 17 . 63 acres into fifteen <br /> ( 15) new lots and upgrade the private roads to public. <br /> The average lot size is 1. 18 acres. All lots will be <br /> served by individual wells and septic tanks. NCDOT has <br /> recommended some minor clearing and grading to improve <br /> sight distance at the subdivision entrance on NC <br /> Highway 57 . <br /> The drainage easement that crosses lots E3 through E6 <br /> must be extended across lot A5. Its purpose is to <br /> accommodate the outflow from a pond on adjacent <br /> property. The drainage way is actually a wide grassed <br />