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REQUEST The Owner, Pietwont Electric Membership Coroporation, seeks a rezoning to Planned Development - Office Institutional and a Special Use Permit for Property preser►tly zoned Rural Residential. SITE LOCATION & CHARACTERISTICS The 33.92 acre site is located on the east side of N.C. 86, an arterial road, and is south of interstate 1-85. Contiguious property owners are Joppa Oaks Estate Sub-Division, Duke University Forest, Willie D. Jones, Archie E. Millis, and Kendrick Estates Investment Corporation. A three-phase power distribuiton line exists along the west side of N.0 86, and a single-phase power service exists along the eastern property line, with a thirty foot wide easement. Underground telephone lines exists in each shoulder of N.C. 86. A sixty foot wide easement (Book 294, page 136) exists along the northern and eastern property lines, providing an access road to the Willie D. Jones property. Public water and sewer does not exist to the site. Proximity of existing public utiliti s, however, is being investigated in order to determine the feasibility of extending such services to the site as opposed to an on-site well and waste treatment facilities. A location for a well and for a septic tank and field has been established on the site should this measure become necessary. Being a major artery between Hillsborough and Chapel Hill, with a hundred foot right-of-way, good line of sight distance exists on N.C. 86 at the property: South - 850 feet, North - 800 feet. Because of the arterial relationship to Hillsborough, the area is easily served by the Orange County Sheriff's Depart- ment, the Orange County Rescue Squad, and the Orange County Fire Department. The setting of the property is one of natural repose and forested with mature deciduous trees. A ridge running east to vest, about mid-way between the northern and southern boundaries, punctuates the site. The land slopes away from the ridge in all directions at a 10% to 12% slope, gently flattening out in the norther quadrant. Major rock outcroppings on the northern slope. As is characteristic of so much of the terrain in Hillsborough, the site is rustic and beautiful., inviting recognition and respect for the setting. The Owner, as a long standing member of the Hillsborough business community and who wishes to remain so, very sensitively recognized this as the search was.. begun to find land adequate to meet the growth demands which have occurred and are antici. ated within the electric membership corporation. 1