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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: June 27, 2006 <br />Action Ager~a~ 1 <br />Item No. b <br />SUBJECT: Rusch Hollow Re-zoninq -Chapel Hill Joint Planning Transition Area <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />1, Resolution <br />2, Draft Public Hearing Minutes <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Craig Benedict, 245-2592 <br />Gene Bell, 245-2589 <br />PURPOSE: To consider approval of a request to rezone 10,431 square feet of land in the <br />Chapel Hill Joint Planning Transition Area from Chapel Hill R-1 to Chapel Hill Residential- <br />Special Standards-Conditional (R-SS-C), <br />BACKGROUND: Joint approval of a Habitat far Humanity re-zoning petition in 2003 was the <br />first step in creation of the Rusch Hollow affordable housing subdivision. it is located east of <br />Rogers Road and north of Rusch Road in the Chapel Hill .Joint Planning Transition Area. As <br />approved, the subdivision contained 12 lots for owner-occupied single-family homes and two <br />lots for a duplex and triplex respectively, to provide affordable rental housing, <br />The triplex lot did not meet minimum size requirements far the proposed use, Habitat was <br />successful in purchasing 10,431 square feet from an adjacent lot with asingle-family home on i <br />and combined it with the triplex lot to meet required square footage, while at the same time <br />leaving the minimum required area on the existing single-family lot, The re-zoning is needed to <br />extend R-SS-C to the additional area added to the triplex lot, <br />The rezoning petition was presented at the May 11, 2006 .Joint Planning Area Public Hearing <br />attended by a quorum of the Orange County Commissioners and Chapel Hill Town Council. No <br />public comments were received. <br />At its meeting on June 7, the Orange County Planning Board considered a recommendation on <br />the rezoning petition. Following a brief staff presentation, the nine Planning Board members in <br />attendance voted unanimously to recommend approval of the request, <br />The Chapel Hiil Town Council will consider the rezoning petition on either .tune 19 or June 26. <br />