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i.e., sites with poor soils require more land for absorption <br />fields. Thus, even though the ordinance only requires 0.92 <br />acre for a residential lot, soil constraints may result in <br />additional area (1. 85 acres on average) being required to meet <br />such standards. <br />4. Park land acquisition: Methods as well as service area <br />boundary and specifications on community park. <br />The Orange County Subdivision Regulations require at least one <br />thirty -fifth (1/35) of an acre is to be dedicated for each <br />dwelling unit proposed in a subdivision plan. If the County <br />Commissioners find that no recreation site has been designated <br />on the adopted comprehensive plan for the property in <br />question, then payment -in. -lieu may be made. The payment shall <br />equal the number of acres required to be dedicated multiplied <br />by the assessed value of the land to be dedicated. <br />The Master Recreation and Parks Plan for Orange County has <br />identified the need for a community park in the vicinity of <br />Old NC 10 and New Hope Church Road. A community park has a <br />service radius of 1 -2 miles, is 25 acres in size, and is <br />designed to serve a population of 10,000 +. A community park <br />generally contains facilities for active recreation such as <br />athletic fields, and tennis, basketball, and volleyball <br />courts. Areas for passive recreation include a lake or some <br />type of water body, trails, and picnic areas. The break down <br />of active to passive acreage is a typical community park is <br />approximately 50% to each type. <br />S. In an open space development, who maintains the common area? <br />Who pays taxes on it? <br />The common area in open space developments can be the <br />responsibility of the homeowners association or a public or <br />non - profit agency. If the homeowners association owns the <br />common area, it is given a value of one dollar ($1.00) to keep <br />it on the records. The value of the open space is transferred <br />to individual lots since property owners own a certain <br />percentage of the undivided interest in open space. <br />6. For neo- traditional development, what is the density <br />threshold needed to support transit? <br />The Triangle Transit Authority's (TTA) Fixed Guideway Study <br />(FGS) defines transit station areas as areas where additional <br />residential density would be needed to support transit. Four <br />levels of development activity for transit stops are defined. <br />These range from a low of seven units per acre on average to <br />a high of 30 units per acre on average. The area defined for <br />the neotraditional development was given a level 2 development <br />