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locate displaced manufactured home park residents on County owned property near <br />the town. One site identified for a future manufactured home park is the Millhouse <br />Road Park site which is north of Eubanks Road and south of NC 86. Currently, this <br />78-acre site (comprised of two parcels) is zoned RB (Rural Buffer). <br /> <br />In order to accommodate a future manufactured home park on this site, the following <br />options are available: <br />1. Approval of a subdivision creating individual lots allowing fo r the placement of <br />structures on each separate parcel of property, OR <br />2. Rezoning of the property, or portion thereof, to Home Park Conditional Zoning <br />District (HP-CZD) to allow for the development of a home park which would <br />not have separate parcels, but ‘spaces’. <br />Orange County has identified interest in pursuing a rezoning of this property to <br />accommodate a temporary home park for displaced residents. <br /> <br />The property is bound by density limitations detailed within the Joint Planning Land <br />Use Plan limiting residential development to one dwelling unit per two acres of <br />property. Orange County will pursue the recombination of the two parcels which <br />make up the 78-acre Millhouse Road Park site. <br /> <br />2. Analysis <br />For many years, there has been interest in addressing the vulnerability of residents <br />living in manufactured home parks in Orange County. The Orange County Board of <br />Commissioners allocated $1 million in the FY2015-16 budget process to address <br />preservation and retention of manufactured homes parks and/or to assist in the <br />acquisition of property and land banking for future residential development as an <br />affordable housing alternative. During the FY2016 -17 budget process, the BOCC <br />allocated another $1 million to the land banking program. <br />Following the establishment of the land banking program and designated funding <br />from Orange County, local housing partners began to discuss and evaluate the <br />opportunities and obstacles in redeveloping an existing manufactured home park or <br />developing new affordable housing addressing the needs of mobile home park <br />residents at risk. Orange County Habitat for Humanity invited interested, local <br />individuals to form an informal ad hoc committee that became known as the Mobile <br />Home Park Work Group. At the November 20, 2017 BOCC Meeting, the Mobile <br />Home Park Work Group presented the Mobile Home Park Survey Report and mobile <br />home park recommendations to the Board. These items both identified the need of <br />providing affordable housing options in the Towns and to locating displaced <br />manufactured home park residents close to their existing communities in Chapel Hill <br />and Carrboro. Sherrill Hampton, Orange County Housing Director, is leading this <br />effort. <br />Recently, Orange County staff was requested to explore the possibility of locating a <br />temporary home park on the proposed Millhouse Road Park site. This site includes <br />two parcels (Parcel Identification Numbers 9871-60-7301 and 9871-51-9160) which <br />are approximately 78 acres in area. The parcels are currently zoned Rural Buffer <br />(RB) general use zoning district. At this time, staff anticipates being able to locate <br />approximately 34 units on the parcels. <br />Following approval of this from the Board, Orange County staff will evaluate options <br />to pursue the Conditional Zoning process in order to reserve sufficient land area for <br />5