Agenda 06-04-2019 6-a - Major Subdivision Preliminary Plat Application

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92 US 70 anticipating unrelated to this project a NCDOT right of way, road improvements that would theoretically require five feet of additional right of way. The planning director recommends that the Planning Board receive the Preliminary Plat application,discuss the proposal as desired and then recommend approval of the plat. The way this process would work is you would make a recommendation either way. You would consider the case or continue the case. Ultimately, it would have to go to the Board of Commissioners for a final determination, and they would make a vote on the major subdivision. After that,there many other steps, certifications, permits that have to be obtained;well permits, septic permits, road construction,coordinating with DOT, and the right of way has to be dedicated and accepted by DOT. There would be a storm water permit, a land disturbance permit. It would be reviewed and approved in terms of erosion control and water quantity, and water quality. As part the project, all of those things would basically have to occur prior to the reggeridation of the lots. Adam Beeman: Can you just give me a reference as to where the existing driveway is;to where Birdie Lane is? Are they on top of each other? Patrick Mallett: They actually moved. The existing driveway,there's an area where they are proposing to plug in that existing hole with some evergreen trees and shrubs. This public road is further north and west. The reason being is both the applicant and NC DOT wanted to avoid this box culvert. Adam Beeman: Is that just short of that grade change that you were showing in the pictures? Patrick Mallett: That's roughly in that general area, but I think they've spent a significant amount of time trying to properly locate where that road should go in terms of site distance,with minimal disturbance to the existing right of way and meeting with NC DOT standards for the roads. I think that also involved discussions and meetings with Chuck Edwards the NC DOT engineer. Tim Smith: Looking at the site again,you can see it highlighted here. It is adjacent to across the street off Highway 70 from the golf course and it's in between Palmer's Grove Church Road and Lawrence Road on the north side of Highway 70. Highlighted in red on the exhibit you will see the surrounding area and what's there now. There's several very similar developments in the area. One acre, plus or minus, lots that are on well and septic up along Palmar Grove Church Road. There's several little pockets of subdivisions that have one acre lots with well and septic. Off of Lawrence Road there is also a woodland trailer park that has 23 trailer sites on that property,and that's served by well and septic although they do have a community well for that site. Back in February of this year,we had neighborhood information meeting for the public to come. This shows the limits of the notification of a thousand feet around the property. Those property owners were notified of the development and were sent letters to the neighborhood meeting. We met and discussed and heard their concerns and so forth, and their comments. We've taken all those into consideration as we've continued to adjust and work with the layout and the proposal for the subdivision. As Pat mentioned,the existing conditions of the site and showed you some pictures along the frontage the property. Patrick also went over most of the site data for the property,the zoning, the density, all those numbers are the same here. We are proposing about 2,300 linear feet of roads for the two cul-de-sac roads including the entrance coming up off Highway 70, and we are at 17 percent impervious proposed right now. That's for the road construction and the proposed houses an estimate of what would be on each lot. Out on Highway 70 as we mentioned,there is a 75-foot type E buffer required out there. It is rural, but we're proposing to add additional plantings along highway 70 to increase the opprosity of that buffer to give more screening for that area that will include the area where the existing driveway is now. As Pat mentioned,we are proposed well sites on each lot. We have laid out a potential well site for each lot that meets the setback requirements for the property lines per the code with Orange County environmental health. Again,the shaded areas with the hatching lines is where we're identified some suitable Soils for the property. Hunter Spitzer:Are wells permitted within the Type E buffer? Tim Smith: They are not permitted within the Type E buffer. We are showing some that are right on the line, but they're not propose to be in the type E buffer. Tim Smith: Back on Highway 70, per our conversation back and forth with NCDOT regarding what they want to require for this entrance off Highway 70,we are showing a symmetrical widening of Highway 70 as you're headed