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: ,k_ <br />1 <br />OR AN G E C O U N T Y <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: April 1, 1991 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item # <br />SUBJECT: CRESCENT RIDGE - PRELIMINARY PLAN (formerly Marietta Hills) <br />ACTION BY: May 16, 1991 <br />DEPARTMENT: PLANNING <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />Application <br />Vicinity Map <br />Preliminary Plan <br />Preliminary Plan Certification <br />Buffer Waiver Request <br />Staff Memorandum <br />Agency Comments' <br />Resolution of Approval <br />3/18/91 Draft <br />Planning Board Minutes <br />PUBLIC HEARING: Yes --& —No <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: Emily Cameron <br />Extension 2580 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough - 732 -8181 <br />Durham - 688 -7331 <br />Mebane - 227 -2031 <br />Chapel Hill - 967- 9251/968 -4501 <br />PURPOSE: To consider the Preliminary Plan for Crescent Ridge <br />Subdivision, formerly called Marietta Hills. <br />BACKGROUND: The property is located in western Chapel Hill <br />Township on the north side of Dairyland Road (SR <br />1113) between Albert Road and Rocky Ridge Road. The <br />tract is zoned Rural Buffer with the southern two - <br />thirds of the property in the University Lake <br />Watershed. The Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan <br />designation is Rural Residential. Adjacent land uses <br />are residential and undeveloped. it is located in the <br />Chapel Hill school district. <br />The total acreage of the tract is 63 acres. Nineteen <br />(19) new lots are proposed to be served by a new <br />public road and by individual wells and septic tanks. <br />The average lot size is 3.19 acres. The majority of <br />the tract is wooded and contains areas of steep <br />slopes. The steepest slopes range from twelve percent <br />to almost twenty -five percent. <br />Road construction plans have been submitted for <br />Crescent Drive which indicate that the topography <br />along the road is not as severe. Along the road <br />centerline, the maximum existing slope is 19.4 <br />percent. The finished grade of Crescent Drive will not <br />