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ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING DEPARTMENT HILLSBOROUGH NORTH CAROLINA 27278 4146"-N MEMO TO: Orange County Commissioners FROM: Orange County Planning Staff SUBJECT: Special Use Permit request for the Timbers Mobile Home Park DATE: January 11, 1982 - . .. . .. . - - . . The Orange County Planning Staff recommended denial or deferral of the Planned Development (PD-4) - (Class A Special Use Permit) (and Reton- ing from R-1 to R-8) request for the Timbers to the Planning Board at the January 5, 1982 meeting. The Planning Board is recommending ap- proval of the Timbers Mobile Home Park request with eight imposed con- ditions (see attached Planning Board recommendations). Many of the conditions address problems the Planning Staff pointed out to the Planning Board. The reasons for this Staff recommendation are as follows: 1. The location of this project adjacent to interstate high- ways could present noise problems. The proposal does not address this concern. There is no buffer of distance or vegetation between the roads and the units. Staff feels a minimum of a 50' buffer should be required. 2. The site has been logged in the recent past and there is very little significant vegetation remaining. The pro- posed layout shows an average of 18' between units. This distance does not provide enough privacy, especially since there is no vegetation between units. Staff feels that the size and capacity of landscaping should be increased and indicated on the Plan. Further the distance between units should be not less than as calculated in Article 6,12.3 j. 3. The parking for each unit will be along the roads; without separate pedestrian circulation within the project there is considerable possibility for accidents, especially with the smaller children. Also, with no designated parking for each unit, it is possible that residents would have 32