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The possibility of some type of low - impact, mixed - <br />use commercial development in the higher intensity <br />(rust) area (see attached definition of <br />neighborhood mixed -utse from the draft Carrboro <br />small area plan as an example). This c,,ould be a <br />conditional u,se premised upon the purchase of <br />conservation easements. <br />8. Other ideas /issues discussed by the group on which <br />there was not a recommendation: <br />• FDO assumes conservation easements are in <br />perpetuity. The subcommittee discussed this <br />extensively and considered a lease option in <br />addition to perpetual easements. The lease <br />would be for a period of 20 years, and due to its <br />nature would give a much smaller density bonus. <br />As proposed currently, this would be one -tenth <br />(0.10) of a unit per acre of open space preserved; <br />thus 10 acres of open space preserved for 20 years <br />would be required to receive one bonus unit, 20 <br />acres for two units, etc. <br />The creation of a group of private citizens <br />familiar with development procedures that could <br />preview proposals and make a recommendation on <br />them before they reached government to hopefully <br />expedite the process and make it smoother. <br />A provision that at least one development right on <br />a tract of land be retained so that the option to <br />build a house at some future date is not lost. <br />