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SG <br />10/16/90 <br />9j20j90 <br />another existing section to include the potential for use of <br />publicly designed, installed, maintained and monitored <br />alternative wastewater as an possible means of provision. <br />Lastly, please note that this section mentions lot sizes - <br />e }.pressed in terms of acres her unit (whereas other <br />portions of the plan refer to dersits7 r- expressed in u::its <br />�ner a ore . ) <br />TnD -�L:_G, GC�v� -. .. �C.1 CC. .. C'r `"5 r•� r em reser'1'.. C_ _QTr'.�4 P.... _ . E: -eE <br />C_is IC_ -or ly Gf, u_I C_'. E- G� - ^� <br />n ^cc<i <br />-hr ouch 4 � r' radatic Lip ' ✓�� C �':1G " � <br />C�: �10::� ) C -U!r; LC- e <br />resources, protect fazmland, or enhance rural character. The <br />average lot size in this category varies from 4.59 acres per <br />unit in large -lot developments to an overLll average of 1.2 <br />acres per unit in the Rural Village development opticn. This <br />category is identical to the Rural Buffer category contained <br />in the current Land Use Element of the Orange County <br />Comprehensive Plan. The Rural Buffer.category is described in <br />the element as land adjacent to an Urban or Transition area <br />w'r.ich is r;:-a1 in character and which should remain :-Ural; <br />coma_n <C LETE> lc,,.- ders_t,= res_ce..t�sl Us' a:zd nc.t <br />rEcsi re the physical a :,ter.-sion Of urban services (weter a.— <br />sewer) from the urban areas during the Plan period. <br />To the north -of Chapel Hill and Carrboro in the New Hope <br />Creek drainage basin, low density... Residential developments <br />similar to Sedgefield, Stoneridge, Oak Hills, Birchwood Lake <br />Estates and Falls of the New Hope are expected to continue, <br />relying either on wells and septic tanks; or alternative <br />wastewater treatment systems or package plants - where such <br />systems are installed, designed, monitored, and maintained <br />under the responsibility of a- viable public entity." <br />Page 84 "Rura l Residential" cant. • ton of pace <br />(The sole change proposed here simply replaces the old <br />persons per dwelling unit rate for the Rural Buffer <br />(1980) with a new rate calculated from the 1990 Census. No <br />substantive change is needed or proposed.) <br />"There are approximately 9260 acres of land designated for <br />Rural Residential purposes in the Land Use Plan. If developed <br />at an average density of 0.5 dwelling units per acre of land, <br />with 15% of the land subtracted out for streets and roads, <br />the holding capacity of the area in terms of residential <br />dwellings is 3,936. If multiplied by the 1990 estimated <br />population per household (2.41), the buildout population <br />H <br />