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•= <br />July 18, 2011 Orange County Planning Letter <br />to UNC providing .continents related to a 4ING & INSPECTIONS DEPARTMENT <br />courtesy review of a draft site plan. 3nedict, AICP, Director <br />®to�4p A <br />131 W. Margaret Lane <br />(919) 245 -2575 5z P. O. Box 8181 <br />(919) 644 -3002 (FAX) Hillsborough, NC 27278 <br />www.co.orange.nc.us °rah Cato,°° <br />July 18, 2011 <br />Wendy Hillis <br />Campus Historic Preservation Officer <br />The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill <br />CB# 1090, Giles F. Homey Building <br />103 Airport Drive <br />Chapel Hill, NC 27599 -1090 <br />RE: COURTESY REVIEW of UNC Bingham Facility 2011 Site Plan Update located at 1907 <br />Orange Chapel Clover Garden Road (PIN 9728 -93 -1820) - <br />Dear Ms. Hillis, <br />Thank you for your recent submittal of a draft application for Site Plan Approval for the <br />UNC Bingham Facility, previously known as the UNC Research Resource Facility, located at <br />1907 Orange Chapel Clover Garden Road (hereafter `the property'). <br />The property is approximately fifty -six (56) acres in area and is currently zoned <br />Agricultural Residential (AR). The property is also located within the Agricultural Residential <br />land Use Category as defined within the 2030 Orange County Comprehensive Plan. <br />The property is heavily wooded and has at least three (3) identified streams flowing <br />through it subject to local stream buffer regulations. There appear to be nine (9) structures <br />located on the property, three (3) research buildings and six (6) storage type structures. <br />Additionally there are at least three detention/wastewater ponds on the property. <br />Staff understands that UNC is submitting this site plan for review in order to: <br />1. Memorialize existing conditions on the property due to discrepancies between <br />actual site conditions and the previously approved 2006 site plan(s), <br />2. Seek approval for a new building consti acted on the property that was not shown <br />in its current configuration on the previous aforementioned site plan(s), and <br />3. To address anticipated changes and modifications to the location and scale of the <br />septic /wastewater systems on the property. <br />