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Existing and Proposed Conditions Existing: • Zoning: Rural Buffer (RB) (Property is located within University Lake Protected Watershed) Minimum zoning lot size for University Lake Protected Watershed is two acres. Density limitation in the University Lake Protected Watershed is up to, but no more than five lots with a density of one dwelling per two acres and a density of five acres for all lots thereafter. The developer could conceivably create up to 18 new lots under a conventional subdivision (6.23.2).. Maximum impervious surface in the University Lake watershed is 6% of the gross acreage (6.23.3). Physical Features: • Gently rolling land draining northerly into Neville Creek • A small tributary of Neville Creek drains the eastern edge of the property, • Predominately wooded. The Andrews Cheek Tract was timbered ten to fifteen years ago.. • The Tanaka Tract has significant tree species planted in an orchard setting along Orchard Lane, as it enters the subdivision. Adjacent Land Use: • Single family residential, with lot sizes ranging from one to six acres in older subdivisions to the south and west, agricultural and forest lands mainly to the north and east. • The Perry estate properties to the north. The Poplar Hill and Granpian Hills subdivisions to the west and the Springhill Forest subdivision to the south. • The parcel directly to the east contains over 19 acres, • 36 of the 66 tax parcels (54%) to which staff mailed notices of the December 19, 2005 Neighborhood Meeting are less than 3.40 acres (the density of the proposed subdivision). This is the proposed lot density with the common open space included. PROPOSED: Roads: • Access to subdivision is from a proposed 2,177-foot long cul-de-sac, Orchard Trail, off Janes Ferry Road (SR 1942), a paved, public road in Chapel Hill Township. The total length of the public road right of way is 2,625 feet, as the right of way is extended to the east property line, beyond the cul-de-sac. (IV~B-3-c-7) • NCDOT has provided written approval for Orchard Lane and the right turn lane, • All roads shall be constructed to NCDOT (and County) requirements. (IV-B-3-c & IV-B-3- d-1) • Neville Creek floodplain and steep valley slopes to Sesame Road, about 900 feet to the north, do not make future road extensions to the north feasible or advisable. (IV-B-3-c-7) • Staff recommends a deceleration lane at the Orchard Lane entrance to Jones Ferry Road. Flexible Development Option • Eighteen (18) single-family residential lots under the flexible subdivision option. • Average lot size = 2.045 acres Actual to minimum lot ratio: 1.00 Open Space: Minimum open space required for Flexible Development Option is 33% of site,. (IV-G-1)