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Attachment 1 <br />Summai°y of Exempted Orange County <br />Subdivision Activity (1994 to 2003) <br />3 <br />North Carolina statutes exempt certain types of subdivisions from local <br />review and approval. Subdivisions of land involving a combination or <br />recombination of land, public road right-of--way acquisitions, an utility lot, a <br />boundary survey, dedication of an easement, the division of land affecting <br />two acres of less in a single ownership with no right-of-way dedication, or <br />lots greater° than ten acres are exempt. Table 1 summarizes exempted <br />subdivision activity in the county since 1994. Resulting lots greater than <br />twenty acres were not included because they potentially could be re- <br />subdivided later. <br />Table 1. Exempted Subdivisions. <br />Year <br />Number of <br />Subdivisions <br />Number of <br />Lots < 20 ac. <br />Area Subdivided <br />(ac.) <br />Average Ai°ea <br />er Lot (ac.) <br />1994 28 67 795.77 11.88 <br />1995 26 48 582..98 12.15 <br />1996 .3 7 101 1,061.98 10.51 <br />1997 40 73 807.84 11.07 <br />1998 39 97 1,154..34 11.90 <br />1999 43 124 1,.308.52 10.55 <br />2000 45 93 1,039.87 1L18 <br />2001 33 82 936.53 11.42 <br />2002 40 134 1.502.21 11.21 <br />2003 25 57 643.70 11.29 <br />Total 345 876 9,873.92 11.27 <br />The two charts below compare exempted subdivisions from other minor and major <br />subdivision activity. Exempted platted lots account for about 22% (with a range of 11% <br />to 43%) of the total lots created and 12% of the lots with new residences. <br />