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W• 1. Falls Reservoir. For the Falls Reservoir, the Critical Area would be about 17 square miles (a slight increase) and the protected area would be about 35 square miles, more than doubling the present Basin and LIA combined. These figures exclude the water surface area of the reservoirs and the Corps land purchased for the Reservoirs and, therefore, reflect potentially developable land. (For the purposes of these figures, the normal pool of the Falls Reservoir is defined in accordance with the Board of County Commissioner's actions on June 24, 1991. Under this definition, the normal pool is located on Ellerbee Creek and the Eno River where the County's consultant surveyor, KCI; located the 250.1 foot MSL water surface elevation. The normal pool elevation is located on the Flat River in accordance with the 1987 USGS quadrangle map's delineation of the 250 foot MSL contour. Staff at DEM has yet to receive and review this definition.) Land Use Plan Compatibility. For the Falls Reservoir, most of the .land that would be delineated as Critical Area is outside of the City's Urban Growth Area, except for an area near Red Mill Road and the Eno River. The County General Development Plan 2005 Future Land Use Map projects land uses in the Critical Area to be primarily open space, agricultural and rural. A major exception is this same area near Red Mill Road and the Eno River, which the County's.Plan projects to be more intensely used for commercial, office, research and industrial purposes. The State's rules are generally compatible with the Critical Area land use density proposed for south of the Eno River, but incompatible with planned uses in the small area north of the Eno River. The area that would be delineated as Protected Area under the State's rules encompasses substantial land inside the City's Urban Growth Area. The City's Future Land Use Map shows a mixture of projected uses for this area, although the majority is low density residential. Several areas projected for higher intensity land uses are included in the Protected Area: a commercial and industrial center at I -85 and Glenn School Road, and industrial center near Hamlin Road and Old Oxford Highway, ,high density residential areas between Roxboro Road and Old Oxford Highway, a commercial center at NC 98 and Mineral Springs Road. (Several landfill sites have been suggested for the Protected area; note that landfills are allowed.) The land use density proposed under the State's rules is generally compatible with suburban density residential development envisioned in Durham's Plan. However, -under the low density option, the State's rules for other development conflict with Durham's long range Plan. Under the high density option, development restrictions, and thus conflicts with long range plans, are not as severe. To date, no small area plans have been completed in this Protected Area. 2. Jordan Reservoir_ For the Jordan Reservoir, the Critical Area would be about 1 square mile (about a two - thirds reduction) and the Protected Area would be about 21 square miles (about a one -third increase). Again, these figures exclude the water surface area of the reservoirs and the Corps land purchased for the Reservoirs and, therefore, reflect potentially developable land. The Protected Area would include less area on New Hope Creek tributaries than is presently regulated, but more on Northeast Creek in the vicinity of NC 55 and NC 54. 10