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835 <br /> 156 <br /> • <br /> REQUEST <br /> The Owner, Piedmont Electric Membership Coroporation, seeks a rezoning to <br /> Planned Development - Office Institutional and a Special Use Permit for <br /> Property presently. zoned Rural Residential. <br /> SITE LOCATION & QFIARACTERISTICS <br /> The 33.92 acre site is located on the east side of N,C. 86, an arterial roads <br /> and is south of interstate 1-85. Contiguious property owners are Joppa Oaks <br /> Estate Sub-Division, Duke University Forest, Willie D. Jones, Archie E. Millis, <br /> and Kendrick Estates Investment Corporation. <br /> • A three-phase power distribuiton line exists along the west side of N.0 86, <br /> and a single-phase power service exists along the eastern property line, with <br /> a thirty foot wide easement. Underground telephone lines exists in each <br /> shoulder of C. 86. A sixty foot wide easement (Book 29L, page 136) exists <br /> along the northern and eastern property lines, providing an access road to <br /> the Willie D. Jones property. <br /> Public water and sewer does not exist to the site. Proximity of existing <br /> pub,..c utilities, however, is being investigated in order to determine the <br /> feasiility of extending such services to the site as opposed to an on-site <br /> well and waste treatment facilities. A location for a well and for a septic <br /> tank and field has been established on the site should this measure become <br /> necessary <br /> 4 <br /> Being a major artery between Hillsborough and Chapel Hill, with a hundred foot <br /> right-of-way, good line of sight distance exists on N.C. 86 at the property: <br /> South - 850 feet, North - 800 feet. Because of the arterial relationship to <br /> Hillsborough, the area is easily served by the Orange County Sheriff's Depart- <br /> ment, the Orange County Rescue Squad, and the Orange County Fire Department. <br /> The setting of the property is one of natural repose and forested with mature <br /> deciduous trees. A ridge running east to west, about mid-way between the <br /> northern and southern boundaries, punctuates the site The land slopes away <br /> from the ridge in all directions at a 10% to 12% slope, gently flattening out <br /> in the norther quadrant, Major rock outcroppings on the northern slope. <br /> As is characteristic of so much of the terrain in Hillsborough, the site is <br /> rustic and beautiful, inviting recognition and respect for the setting,. The <br /> Owner, as a long standing member of the Hillsborough business cormunity and <br /> who wishes to remain so, very sensitively recognized this as the search was <br /> begun to find land adequate to meet the growth demands which have occurred <br /> and are anticipated within the electric membership corporation. <br />