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Attachment 1 6 42 Sue Holey Ho ood 148.65 2 Active Fazrn Family 43 Mary Ellen Godwin 20.35 2 Active Farm Created residential lots 44 Asie & Sandra Glas ow 159.60 2 Farm/Forest Family 45 Kenneth Strown 202.64 2 Active Farm Family 46 Malbrooke Pro ., Inc. 28.14 3 Forest Created residential lots 47 Geor a Horton, III 480.07 4 Active Farm -- 48 Stanford & Stanford 45.70 2 Forest Created residential lots Total 3,809.5 127 Created residential lots Discussion Lots SubdiriderG Exempted subdivisions, since 2003, have created 48 recorded plats of 5,668 acres on 129 lots. Of the 48 exempted subdivisions recorded, 13 (27%) involved an inheritance, family estate or family member. The use before the land division has not changed, according to 1998 and 200.3 air photographs. Two other divisions involved a public road right-of--way and a recombination. The 1,858-acre tract, which involved the sale of over 800 acres to the State of North Caroluia, is not considered because it did not create more land for development and would skew the data. In five subdivisions, (19%), the intent of the recordation was not cleaz. Only three of these land divisions involved active farmlands. Residerrtial Lots. From the remaining 27 (56%) exempt subdivisions, 84 lots, or an average of .3.1 lots per subdivision, were created on 1,703 acres. Each newly platted lot averaged 20.28 acres, including any residual parcels. Fifteen of these subdivisions (51 lots) were carved from land in forest cover. The remaining twelve exempt subdivisions divided over 849 acres of farmland into 37 lots Esiirrrate of Affect or: Active Far•rr:lar:ds. According to the State of North Carolina Department of Agriculture data, roughly 52% of all Orange County farms are considered active cropland. Thus, about 450 acres of active farmland potentially could have been saved since 2003 if the "farmstead minor cluster" subdivision option were available. This represents about eight percent of the total subdivided acreage over the study period. Farutstead Minor Cluster Affect. On thirteen of the 129 (10%) of the newly created, exempted lots building permits for single-family detached residences have been issued. Eight have certificates of occupancy approved and five are under construction, according to the County's building permit tracking system.