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ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING DEPARTMENT 306F REVERE ROAD HILLSBOROUGH, NORTH CAROLINA 27278 u ;2 b MEMORANDUM TO: Stoney Creek Planning Group FROM: Gene Bell, Planner III 0-0 SUBJ: Follow -up on Questions from April 4 Meeting DATE: April 15, 1996 1. Clarification on Rural Buffer Boundary - Two specific questions concerning the Rural Buffer were raised at our last meeting: Is it defined by the boundaries of the New Hope Creek Drainage Basin? For the portion of the Rural Buffer lying west of NC 86, the answer is "yes." The Rural Buffer was expanded to incorporate all of this area approximately 10 years ago as part of the review and approval process for the Joint Planning Area (JPA) Land Use Plan. For the section of the Rural Buffer lying east of NC 86 to the Durham County line, the answer is "generally." This portion of the Rural Buffer was defined in the 1981 Orange County Land Use Plan and was not modified when the JPA Plan was prepared. There are two areas where there is some discrepancy between the drainage basin line and the Rural Buffer line. The first is the area between NC 86 and University Station Road where the buffer is defined as a straight line and the second area lies east of Cornwallis Road where the Rural Buffer line follows the southern boundary of the Durham Division of Duke Forest. I will bring a map to the meeting which depicts these areas. Is the Rural Buffer drawn correctly on the map? Yes, it is drawn correctly in the sense that it depicts what was adopted by the governing boards of Orange County, Chapel Hill, and Carrboro.