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the Planning Area boundary- will be,of a very low- density dwellings and outbuildings. L7 20 As development occurs in these asfarm nature and will generally consist Of hate ua ILtX critigal am—as Only one Critical Area designated in Orange the ntjoint A Water Quality though others have been desig Critical Area has been•established aandn Carrboro.1ty The Critical Area raw water source for Chapel H Lake and to major ludes all lands which drain directly to University residential uses inc trunk streams feeding the reservoir. Only low- density are permitted in this area at densities not to exceed one dwelling per two acres of land. Rua go-sidentiAl of The Rural Residential category i = e lbotsentwo acres coin i size or single - family homes situated on large greater. The Rural Residential curreent °Oran a County Land Use Plan• Buffer category contained in the curt 9 The Rural Buffer .category is described 5i r the Plan s cterad and ewhich an Urban or Transition area which should remain rural; contain very low- density residential uses, and not require urban services (water and sewer) during the Plan period. To the north. of 'Chapel Hill and Carrboro in the New Hope Creek drainage basin, low - density residential development has Res Residential d. along Whitfield Road, Sunrise. Road and Erwin Oak Hills, Birchwood developments similar to Sedgefield, Stoneridge. ected to continue, Lake Estates t wells Falls of the New He tanks for wa er supply and sewage disposal. relying ° To the west of Carrboro, Lake Watershed. Rural Residential development is also Adop t Y expected in University ublic water and sewer services into the prohibit the extension of p watershed except in emergency situations. For wells andsoSePticidtanks development will continue to y requirement applied initially, a two -acre - minim allArea 1A one-acre minimum lot siz designated Water Quality watershed. with th requirement applied in the remainder of the application in th adoption of thi Rural Buffer zoning dq ired l and its ot sizes became two acre Joint PlanninW- _ -N7 the minimum raga throughout Dni=rsity Lake watershed as well as the rest of the Rura Buffer. ' T he remaining area designated for Rural Residential pevelo Of mt ea t. the Southern Triangle area in the extreme southeastern Count The area. drains to the southeast tow don area which can Y beyond the ridge line of the Morgan Creek Southern Triangle is flo slopes, served by gravity sewer lines• characterized by environmental constraints low density deve opment plains and sails with poor stability, projected. 83 S s