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As currently envisioned, expedited review would entail review and approval of projects by County staff as opposed to the more lengthy process of Planning Board review and County Commissioner approval. Currently, minor subdivisions (the creation of five lots or less) and projects consistent with Economic Development District guidelines receive expedited review. Care must be taken when considering activities for expedited review because an important element of public oversiLht is foregone The one area in which the group has consensus regarding expedited review is for developments that preserve 70% open space. Another idea discussed extensively by the Planning Group, but still lacking consensus is expedited review for low density, rural subdivisions with lot sizes averaging five acres or more. Next to s Following the open house, the Planning Group will: • Review open house comments and incorporate as appropriate; • review Rural Design Guidelines as soon as they are available; • refine the boundaries of the land - use intensity levels on the map; • finish implementation discussions and recommendations; and • pull together public hearing package for presentation on May 28, 1996. More Information Contact Gene Bell, Planner III, in the Orange County Planning Department at extension 2589 at the appropriate phone number: 688 -7331 (Durham), 732 -8181 (Hillsborough), and 967- 9251 (Chapel Hill). Stoney Creek Small Area Plan Group (* Denotes Alternate) Verla Insko, Facilitator Curtis Bane Bob Hall Steve Price Bill Bracey Gary Hanker Lee Rafalow James Bumphus Dan Kenan* Trish Rafalow* Clint Burklin Ken tilaynard* John Ringland* Keith Cook Meg McKean Elio Soldi Trudy Cuffe Bobby Nicholson Bob Strayhorn Judd Edeburn Kim Price* Dan Teichman Steve Halkiotis Renee Price Irene VanDyke* Michael Warner Don Willhoit Thea Wilson* David Yelton Dean Zehnder STONEY CREEK SMALL AREA PLAN Community Open House at New Hope Elementary School March 21, 1996 Introduction In the past year a group of 22 citizens has worked on a land use plan for the Stoney Creek area that achieves two goals: • Protects the rights that landowners have now to derive value from their Iand. The plan does not take away any of the development options a landowner now has and does not downzone the area; and • Protects the area's "rural character" by adding new, voluntary options for how landowners can develop their land. What is a Land Use Plan? It is a statement of the County's goals, policies, and recommendations regarding future land development. As an official public document adopted by the Board of County Commissioners, it reflects general consensus about how, when, and where the County should encourage or discourage future development and is embodied in map and text form. The Orange County Commissioners appointed the Stoney Creek Small Area Planning Group (see roster at end) to develop a land use plan - and recommendations for how it might be implemented - for the 4,700 acre area southeast of Hillsborough. Before the plan can be considered for adoption by the County Commissioners, it must be presented at public hearing and receive Planning Board review. The Stonev Creek Plan Citizens lobbied to get this planning process started because suburban - style conventional developments are spreading and could overtake the remaining rural aspects of the Stoney Creek area. The Planning Group identified key resource areas and then identified levels of land -use intensity that would help protect these resources. The resources include Duke Forest, the Stoney Creek Wildlife Corridor, New Hope Presbyterian Church lands, scenic road corridors, and existing farmland and neighborhoods. Three levels of land -use intensity (lower, intermediate, and higher) are being recommended for different parts of