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10 CP -1 -92 University Station Rural Village PROJECT DESCRIP'T'ION The amendment proposed will permit the development of a "Rural Village" on the University Station site between Hillsborough and Chapel Hill. This will be consistent with the intent and purpose of the Orange County Comprehensive Plan and is in line with work currently underway by the Rural Character Study Committee, currently studying means of preserving the very pleasant rural fla- vor of the undeveloped areas of the county. Development will be focused on the village center, reserving permanent open space as buffers and for use as a public golf course surrounded by residential Iots and adjacent to a 25 -acre public park to be donated by University Station to the County. I Development of this community will be similar to neo- traditional villages which have been recently developed at Seaside in Florida, Kentlands in Maryland, # Black Oak in Virginia and Lake Park Village here in North Carolina. They are examples of recent developments in rural land planning and of a line of thinking # gaining increased acceptance from planning boards and in the marketplace, as well. Planners in this area are familiar with this work, primarily as a result of a presentation made here last year by Andres Duany. With a character drawing heavily from 19th century archit- ctural precedents in Orange County, University Station. is to be a complete community with ap- proximately 1,110 housing lots of a number of types, with approximately half in the village center and half elsewhere on the site, primarily adjacent to the golf course. Housing offered will appeal to a very wide spectrum across the market. Since University Station is seen as a functioning community and will be to a considerable extent self - contained, with its own commercial and institutional services, it will be able to appeal to and respond to a very wide range of needs. It will not be necessary for residents to travel by car to a distant shopping cen- ter to buy a loaf of bread, nor to chauffer children some miles to a softball game. It is intended that most facilities at University Station will be located with walking distance. A circle is shown on the site plan defining a five minute walk centered on the village square, approximately 1,350 feet in radius, and it will be seen that most of a resident's daily needs can be satisfied within that circle without driving offsite. There seems to be a great desire, tinged with nostalgia for a simpler and more friendly past, on the part of a large segment of the population in America today