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~~ ~ ~~~ l ! ~~ THE JOHN R. McADAMS COMPANY, INC. It is proposed that Hillsborough water and sewer serve the development. Service lines to the development will tie into the utility infrastructure built to serve the newly constructed Pathway Elementary School. The development will contribute to the cast of extending public water and sewer to the school. No County inventoried natural or cultural resources are located on the site. However, the master plan includes a substantial undisturbed buffer against the historic Quaker Cemetery, which is on property adjacent to the site. The master plan also includes undisturbed buffers along the floodplain associated with Strouds Creek and along the major drainage channels within the site. Other significant areas of natural woodlands will be preserved in private recreation areas and in the perimeter buffers of the site and the individual development pods. Rezoning and Special Use Permit The proposed rezoning is consistent with the Orange County Land Use Plan, which identifies the site as Agricultural Residential, a low density residential classification. A rezoning from Agricultural Residential (AR) to Planned Development -Mixed-Use (PD-MU) is requested in order to provide open space, reduce lot sizes, vary housing types, allow for flexible design standards (including the provision of a town center and a County services facility), and to permit a nearly 200-acre land gift to the County. However, the proposed dwelling unit density is less than the maximum density permitted in the AR District under the flexible develapment standards. The proposed rezoning also will achieve specific goals identified in the Land Use Plan. • Conservcrtion of Natural Rc~sourcc~s o Restrict or prohibit development in flood haaard areas. -The proposed master plan preserves 100-year .floodplain and significant drainage channels as open space. o Maintain and protect land which contains valuable resources. -The proposed master plan preserves significant areas of woodlands as open space. • Growth ]Management/Economic Develvpment o Designate land ti+~ithin Agricultural Residential areas that is appropriate fur small-scale commercial uses as Rural Neighborhood activity nudes.