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40 <br /> <br />The Board considered approving process components and schedule for a government- <br />initiated amendment to the Zoning Atlas regarding the rezoning of the Millhouse Road Park site <br />from RB (Rural Buffer) to Home Park Conditional Zoning District (HP-CZD). If approved, <br />Orange County staff will pursue the hiring of a professional consultant/design firm to submit the <br />required conditional zoning district application. <br />Craig Benedict, Planning Director, presented this item: <br /> <br />BACKGROUND: <br />For many years, there has been interest in addressing the vulnerability of residents living in <br />manufactured home parks in Orange County. The Orange County Board of <br />Commissioners allocated $1 million in the FY2015-16 budget process to address preservation <br />and retention of manufactured homes parks and/or to assist in the acquisition of property and <br />land banking for future residential development as an affordable housing alternative. During the <br />FY2016-17 budget process, the BOCC allocated another $1 million to the land banking <br />program. <br /> <br />Following the establishment of the land banking program and designated funding from Orange <br />County, local housing partners began to discuss and evaluate the opportunities and obstacles <br />in redeveloping an existing manufactured home park or developing new affordable housing <br />addressing the needs of park residents at risk. Orange County Habitat for Humanity invited <br />interested, local individuals to form an informal ad hoc committee that became known as the <br />Mobile Home Park Work Group. At the November 20, 2017 BOCC Meeting, the Mobile Home <br />Park Work Group presented the Mobile Home Park Survey Report and mobile home park <br />recommendations to the Board. These items both identified the need of providing affordable <br />housing options in the Towns and to locating displaced manufactured home park residents <br />close to their existing communities in Chapel Hill and Carrboro. Sherrill Hampton, Orange <br />County Housing Director, is leading this effort. <br /> <br />More recently, due to the potential redevelopment of existing parks in the Town of Chapel Hill, <br />Orange County has explored the opportunity to locate displaced manufactured home park <br />residents on County owned property near the town. One site identified for a future <br />manufactured <br />home park is the Millhouse Road Park site which is north of Eubanks Road and south of NC 86. <br />Currently, this 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 options <br />are available: <br />1. Approval of a subdivision creating individual lots allowing for 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 District <br /> (HP-CZD) to allow for the development of a home park which would not have <br />separate parcels, but ‘spaces’. <br /> <br />Orange County has identified interest in pursuing a rezoning of this property to accommodate a <br />temporary home park for displaced residents. The property is bound by density limitations <br />detailed within the Joint Planning Land Use Plan limiting residential development to one <br />dwelling unit per two acres of property. Orange County will pursue the recombination of the two <br />parcels which make up the 78-acre Millhouse Road Park site. Depending on the number of <br />spaces sought to be created through the rezoning, the overall acreage necessary to achieve <br />this unit count through ‘clustering’ will be determined. For rough estimation purposes, only eight