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<br />ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DISTRICTS DESIGN MANUAL <br />PART TWO: PERFORMANCE STANDARDS <br />SECTION 2.1 DEVELOPMENT AREAS <br />(ZONING ORDINANCE SECTION 6.29.3) <br />Proposed Amendment <br />Section 6.29 Economic Development District Design Manual; <br />Part Two (2) Performance Standards; Section 2.1 <br />Development Areas; I-85 Buckhorn Road District page <br />2.1.3a: <br />1-85 Buckhorn Road District* <br />The I-85/Buckhorn Road Economic Development District is <br />comprised of 940 acres located on the northeast and <br />southeast quadrants of the interstate .interchange. This <br />acreage is distributed among the three principal land use <br />categories in the schematic plan as follows: <br />Primary Development Area <br />Individual Area Acreages: <br />940 Gross Acres <br />Area 1 A 446 +/- Acres <br />Area 1C 155 +/- Acres <br />Area 2A 340 +/- Acres <br />*Note: These acreage calculations include open space, resource <br />protection areas, and rights-af-way <br />The district is characterized by gently rolling topography. with <br />few building constraints. However, soils .unsuited for <br />development are found along intermittent streams, which <br />flow south beneath 1-40%1-85 to join Seven-mile Creek, a <br />tributary of the Eno River. Because of its location on the <br />western edge of the Upper Eno Watershed, land uses in the <br />district are subject to watershed protection standards <br />governing impervious surface and the control of stormwater. <br />NORTHERN ZONE: <br />General DescriptionlBoundaries: <br />This Zone is bordered by 1-85 to the .south and the <br />Southern Railroad spur to the north with Buckhorn Road <br />serving as the western boundary area and the Town of <br />