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228• <br /> currently,the permitted uses are limited to research activities and accessory uses, <br /> public utility uses, and public parks,botanical gardens and arboretus. <br /> The proposed text amendment would split the County PID zone into two classes: <br /> PID-I and PID-II;to correspond with.the Duke lD�ilands concept of Permanent expected to stay in <br /> Research Forest and Research Project Land. <br /> recreational and research uses for the next twenty yearsm. PID-�would PID-II lands <br /> are expected to stay in such uses for less than twenty s gy <br /> minimum lot size of 500,000 square feet(11.5 acres),and permitted uses to include <br /> essentially the same uses as permitted now in the PID,as well as nonresidential <br /> mixed use projects involving historic structures. P1D-II would have a minimum lot <br /> size of 200,000 square feet(approximately 5 acres),and would permit the <br /> development of single family homes,and nonresidential mixed use projects,involving <br /> historic structures, in addition to the list of uses now permitted in the PID. <br /> proposes to deal with the fourth category, Residual Endowment Land,by <br /> The ro a' <br /> 3ww? <br /> Th.. County p p <br /> zoning it the same as other land in its vicinity; and no land in the third category, <br /> Institutional Use Land (essentially the campus), lies within Orange County. NOTE: <br /> The County will also have to amend its Land Use Plan to reflect these changes. <br /> Town Comments: Under the Joint Planning Agreement, the area in Carrboro's and <br /> Chapel Hill's Joint Planning Transition Areas that abut Duke Forest lands have a <br /> . complicated split zoning,partially Transition Area (Town)zoning,and partially <br /> County Rural Buffer zoning. This requires that the owners of such properties go <br /> through two separate review processes,one through the County, and one through the <br /> towns, in order to receive permission to subdivide and/or develop their property. <br /> The purpose of this was to 'buffer'Duke Forest lands from development activities. <br /> Now the particular portion of Duke Forest in question,above Carrlaoro's Transition <br /> Area and south of Eubanks Road,is to be reclassified as permitting residential uses. <br /> if that is to occur,the Town would like to have removed the 400 foot'Rural Buffer <br /> buffer' between Carrboro's Transition Area II and Duke Forest, in that area. <br /> Cr�ri�es to the it:la. <br /> Sizes o f Mobile Home Planned Developments <br /> _ s:m� �e. <br /> Explanation. Proposed Changes: The County wants to—amend its Mobile Home <br /> es•. <br /> Planned Community zoning district regulations oe t ma n su <br /> communities on the basis of the number of mobile home P a included rather than <br /> on the acreage involved. Currently the ordinance limits such communities to 50 <br /> acres in size,with a minimum of 10 acres, <br /> and allows mobile homes to be clustered <br /> II on lots as small as 5000 square feet. The proposed ordinance would limit the size of <br /> such communities to 50 mobile home units,and establish the minimum size as 10 <br /> units. No change in the clustering provision is proposed. <br /> Town Comments: proposed amendment seems appropriate and in keeping with <br /> the desire to preserve a rural environr Tent in the Rural Buffer areas of the County. <br /> 5 <br />