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k The Homestead Renoning Statement of Justification September 2000 Page 2 the mare usual single-family detached form of housing within Chapel Hill, but it is offered at price points within the reach of much of the labor force of Chapel Hiil. At the same time, the relative isolation of the parcel from both surrounding neighborhoods and e>isting street frontages facilitates the goal of protecting existing neighborhoods from the impacts of infill development. Specifically, the rezoning will also further the stated goal of the Town to provide affordable housing (defined as affordable to a family of four with 80 percent of the area's median income) at a level of lS percent of the proposed housing. Not only is this a goal of the Town whenever there is a rezoning, but that target level of affordable housing is also included within the Comprehensive Plan. The applicant proposes to meet this goal threshold within The Homestead with townhome ownership priced within those income guidelines. .By conditionally rezoning the property and thereby r+egti;*~'~g a Special Use Permit application instead of enttertaining a subdivision request for the property, the stormwater goals of the Comprehensive Plan are fiuhered in that a stormwater detention plait will be required, including the construction of stormwater detention ponds. No such ponds are required of single-family detached developments. Furthermore, tl~e greenways and transportation networks of the Town will be furthered by completion of the Weaver Dairy Road. right-of-way corridor south to Homestead Road and provision of the missing link of the Rail Trail greenway corridor just east of the University Raihnad line. Provlsian of these two missing links will further the circulation albeanatives far the co~mmtmity whether by automobile, bicycle, ar pedestrian in nature. Finally, fire rezoning request has bey reduced.fraln the size and density of the original S?.~e coonc:ept Plan vcrsion to now provide an oppordmity for community facilities to be located on the Homestead Road frontage area of the original tract. A portiaat of that Homestead Road front~e area is still included. within the project boundaries and within the rezoning request while the remaindear is now outside of the project boundaries and therefore available for public acquisition, if so desired. Additionally, the portion still within the project boundaries cturcntly has no planned. program other than mcreatian. In conclusion, the applicant asserts that, together with the accompanying Special Use Permit applicatiaat concurrenay submitted with this zoning aatiendment petition, rezoning this 48-acre property from R-2 to R-0{C) will unquestionably achieve the goals and objectives of the Comprehensive Plan. 9