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. 8 • . • ' currently, the permitted uses are limited to research activities and accessory use public utility uses,and public parks, botanical gardens and arboretums. The proposed text amendment would split the County PID zone into two classes: PID-I and PID-I I, 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(11.5 acres), and permitted uses to include essentially the same uses as permitted now in the P1D, as well as nonresidential mixed use projects involving historic structures. PID-11 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 Carrbores 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. Thepurpose 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 II and Duke, Forest,in that area. Chanves to the lelaeineum Sizes of Mobile Horne Planner; Development • --- -• • r . . - . - . - ExRlanatiOn of Proposed Changes:* The County wants torarnend 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 vise as 10 units. No change in the clustering provision is proposed. Toven reenments• This proposed a.mendment seems a.prerolreriate and in keeping with • th desire to preserve a rural environment in the Rural Buffer areas of the County. • 5