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• currently, the permitted uses are limited to research activities and accessory us2,55 public utility uses, and public parks, botanical gardens and arboretums. • The proposed text amendment would split the County PID zone into two classes: PID-1 and PID-II, to correspond with the Duke report's concept of Permanent Research Forest and Research Project Land. PID-I lands are expected to stay in recreational and research uses for the next twenty years or more,and PID-II lands are expected to stay in such uses for less than twenty years. PID-I would have a minimum lot size of 500,000 square feet(115 acres),and permitted uses to include essentially the same uses as permitted now in the PID, as well as nonresidential mixed use projects involving historic structures. PID-II would have a minimum lot size of 200,000 square feet (approximately 5 acres), and would permit the development of single family homes,and nonresidential mixed use projects involving historic structures, in addition to the list of uses now permitted in the PID. The County proposes to deal with the fourth category, Residual Endowment Land, by zoning it the same as other land in its vicinity;and no land in the third category, Institutional Use Land (essentially the campus),lies within Orange County. NOTE: The County will also have to amend its Land Use Plan to reflect these changes. Town Comments: Under the Joint Planning Agreement, the area in Carrboro's and Chapel Hill's Joint Planning Transition Areas that abut Duke Forest lands have a complicated split zoning, partially Transition. Area (Town) zoning,and partially County Rural Buffer zoning. This requires that the owners of such properties go through two separate review processes, one through the County, and one through the towns, in order to receive permission to subdivide and/or develop their property. The purpose of this was to 'buffer'Duke Forest lands from development activities. Now the particular portion of Duke Forest in question, above Carrboro's Transition Area and south of Eubanks Road,is to be reclassified as permitting residential uses. If that is to occur, the Town would like to have removed the 400 foot 'Rural Buffer buffer between Carrboro's Transition Area I I and Duke Forest, in that area. 3. Changes to the Maidmum Sizes of Mobile Home Planned neve looments • - planation of Proposed Changes: The County wants to-amend its Mobile Home Planned Community zoning district regulations to define the maximum size of such • communities on the basis of the number of mobile home spaces included rather than on the acreage involved. Currently the ordinance limits such communities to 50 acres in size, with a minimum of 10 acres, and allows mobile homes to be clustered on lots as small as 5000 square feet. The proposed ordinance would limit the size of such communities to 50 mobile home units, and establish the minimum size as 10 units. No change in the clustering provision is proposed. Town Comments: This proposed amendment seems appropriate and in keeping with the desire to preserve a rural environment in the Rural Buffer areas of the County. • 5