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.~ <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: April 17, 2001 <br />Action Age d <br />Item No. <br />SUBJECT: .High Rock Farms Phase One -Preliminary Plan <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />1) Resolution of Approval Eddie Kirk <br />2) Application Extension 2582 <br />3) Vicinity Map TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />4) Agency Comments Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />5) Fiscal Impact Analysis Chapel Hill 968.4501 <br />6) Preliminary Plan Durham 688-7331 <br />7) 12-6-00 Draft Planning Board Minutes Mebane (336)227-2031 <br />(Delayed from the March 20, 2001 meetings _ <br />PURPOSE: Consideration of the flexible development Preliminary Plan for High Rock Farms <br />Phase One Subdivision. <br />BACKGROUND: <br />Request - PreliminarX, Plan Flexible Development <br />Applicant: Roger James Construction <br />• Seventeen (17) residential lots proposed on a 36.07 acre tract . <br />• Total 55 acres (34%) open space proposed for entire project. This phase will contain 21 acres <br />of the 55 acres, which represents 38% of the total project open space. As future phases are <br />proposed the open space component will decrease as a percentage. (Refer to map on pages <br />12 and 13.) <br />• Minimum lot size is 40,000 sq. ft. <br />• Average lot size - 41,120 sq. ft. (95,083 sq. ft. gross lot size) <br />• Cluster Minimum to actual lot ratio (CMTAR) is 1.02. <br />• Gross Area lot ratio (GALR) is 2.12. <br />Location <br />South side of High Rock•Road in Cheeks Township between Ira Road and Mill Creek Road. <br />Existing and Proposed Conditions <br />Existing: <br />• Current zoning is Rural Residential. (R1) (min. lot size = 40,000 sq. ft.) <br />• Located in Back Creek Protected Watershed. (Maximum Impervious Surface = 12%) <br />Physical Features: <br />• There is one designated stream on the property. <br />• The site is entirely wooded with mixed hardwoods and pines. <br />Adjacent Land Use: <br />• Properties to the west, east and south are medium to large acreage single family residential <br />lots. <br />• Aberdeen Downs and Wagon Farm Trails are one acre lot subdivisions to the north across <br />High Rock Road. <br />