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27 April 7, 1989 Post Office Box 3324 Chapel Hill, NC 27515 Mr. Marvin Collins, Planning Director Orange County Planning Department 306 F Revere Road Hillsborough, NC 27278 RE: Two parcels of land, which I own in Chapel Hill Township, totaling 21.58 acres Dear Mr. Collins: I am writing to request amendment to the Chapel Rill Township portion of the Orange County Land Use Plan (LUP), to include re- classification of the subject property from Rural Residential to Ten Year Transition. Tax and survey maps, furnished herewith, show the smaller parcel surrounded by contiguous land, and the larger tract sharing a 1,560-foot border with the same contiguous land, for which development has- already been proposed. I also un- derstand the adjacent land is currently being recommended for ap- proval under the same reclassification I seek. At the time I appeared before the County Commissioners 10 years ago, I owned all of the 121.58 acres then known as "the Craig Manor property." Several studies and resulting decisions, all costly to. me, went into pursuit of "the highest and best" de- velopmental use for• that site. Subsequently, 100 acres of that property were acquired by the present owners and are now a part of the 575-acre tract already recommended for reclassification ap- proval. I will appreciate equally positive consideration by the Planners, members of the Planning Board and County Commissioners for the remaining 21.58 acres. To that end and in accordance with established procedures for amending the LUP, I am making applica- tion under a secondary amendment for "extension of any plan area where the additional area is contiguous with the existing area and . does not increase the existing area by more than 100 acres." With guidance from the Planning Department it will then be decided if these parcels should also: be expected to conform to requirements for Planned Unit Development. On evaluating how inclusion of this land in the Ten Year Tran- sition Area is consistent witb Land Use Goals, the same locational criteria which helped to qua%lfy the primary amendment also des- cribe the subject property (as to land slope, hydrology, flora and fauna, soil condition, public service and utilities, transportation system, energy use, existing land use, agriculture and forestry, population density, historic and cultural considerations). In reference to "agriculture and forestry," the present cover of hard- i