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1 <br /> 4 <br /> 01 ORANGE COUNTY 1 <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: August j 1989 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item # (71-60 <br /> , SUBJECT: FOUR BIRCHES - PRELIMINARY PLAN <br /> ACTION BY: September 6, 1989 <br /> DEPARTMENT: PLANNING PUBLIC HEARING Yes x No <br /> ATTACHMENT(S) : INFORMATION CONTACT: Eddie Kirk <br /> Extension 348 <br /> Application <br /> Subdivision Approval Permit <br /> Preliminary Plan Certification <br /> Vicinity Map Private <br /> Road Justification TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br /> Private Road Evaluation Hillsborough - 732-8181 <br /> Agency Comments Durham - 688-7331 <br /> Preliminary Plan Mebane - 227-2031 <br /> 7/17/89 Planning Board Minutes Chapel Hill - 967-9251 <br /> (Draft) <br /> PURPOSE: Consideration of the preliminary plan for Four <br /> Birches. <br /> BACKGROUND: The property is located at the north east intersection <br /> of Hopkins Road (SR 1537) and Bill Poole Road (SR <br /> 1536) in Little River Township. The property is not <br /> zoned and the Land Use Plan designation is <br /> Agricultural Residential. Adjacent land uses are <br /> residential and undeveloped (wooded) . <br /> The total acreage of the tract is 45.85 acres. <br /> Sixteen (16) lots are proposed with thirteen (13) <br /> being served by two private roads. The other 3 lots <br /> have frontage on the existing state roads. Bill Poole <br /> Road and Hopkins Road are gravel state maintained <br /> roads. Each lot will be served by individual wells <br /> and septic tanks. The applicant has submitted a <br /> private road justification for the two proposed Class <br /> B private roads. <br /> The justification and the Planning Staff's evaluation <br /> are included with the attachments. The latest traffic <br /> count indicated that in 1988 Bill Poole Road had an <br /> average daily traffic count of 50 at the county line. <br /> Hopkins Road has an average daily traffic count of 70. <br /> The Planning Board reviewed and approved the concept <br /> plan on April 17, 1989 with private roads. <br />