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37 <br />1 • All subdivisions (located within a floadplain) must provide a minimum of 1/20 acre of recreation space <br />2 per lot (Section IV-B-7-b) <br />3 • A minimum of 2.9-acres (126,324 square feet) of land is required for public recreation space <br />4 • Or a payment in-lieu-of parkland dedication = $26,390 ($455 * S81ots) <br />S • The applicant has offered 4.46 acres (194,143 square feet) of land along the northern side of <br />6 McGowan Creek. The location and amount of the proposed dedication is consistent with the <br />7 County's objectives to preserve natural areas and provide public recreation space. <br />8 Private Recreation Space <br />9 • All subdivisions must provide a minimum of 0,028 square feet of recreation space per every square foot <br />10 of land area dedicated for residential use (Articles 5.1.1 & 6.1Z of the Orange County Zoning Ordinance, <br />1 I outline Land Use Intensity (LUI) requirements) <br />12 • 0.028 * 46 = 1.29 acres (56,192 square feet), (46.03 =Total area (50.92) -rights-of--way (4.89)) <br />13 • In those cases where the LUI calculation results in a larger amount than the public recreation space <br />14 requirement of l/20 acre per lot, the difference shall be established as private recreation space for the <br />15 use of the residents of the development <br />16 No private recreation space is required (LUI calculation (1.29) is less than the public recreation space <br />17 requirement (2.9)) _ <br />I8 Water-Sewer: <br />19 • All lots to be served with Orange-Alamance water and Orange County sewer <br />20 ~ Final number of proposed lots does not exceed the number approved with the concept plan <br />21 Agency Comments , <br />22 • Requests for agency review were sent to: NCDOT, Recreation and Parks, Orange County Schools, Soil <br />23 and Water Conservation, Erosion Control, the County Attorney, and the Fire Marshall. <br />24 Comments are attached. <br />25 <br />26 Develo went Process Schedule and Action <br />27 • First Action: Planning Soard to consider Concept Plan <br />2$ The Planning $oard approved the flexible development concept plan for Ashwick on September 6, <br />29 2000 with the following conditions: <br />30 1. The size and boundary locations for both parent tracts shall be verified with Orange County Land <br />31 Records and any discrepancies resolved prior to filing for preliminary plat approval. <br />32 2. A left turn lane, built to NCDOT standards, shall be required on US 70 to access the subdivision. <br />33 3. All roads shall be public and proposed to be built to NCDOT standards with additional five (5) foot <br />34 utility easements on each side. The right-of--way at street intersections shall be improved to NCDOT <br />35 standards. Sight distance triangles (10' x 70') shall be delineated on the plat for each street at <br />36 intersections, as appropriate. <br />37 4. The Benwich Lane right-of-way shall extend to the northwestern, external property line of the <br />38 subdivision in the proximity of lots 31, 35, and 34. A conveyance of a 50-foot right-of-way with 20-foot <br />39 construction easements on each side of this northwestern most portion of Benwich Lane is acceptable in- <br />40 lieu-of construction. <br />41 5. Driveway access points shall be a minimum of 50 feet from the intersection of street rights-af--way. <br />42 6 All corner lots shall be designed to access from the street with lower traffic volume: i,e, lot 6 to <br />43 Farnswick Place, lots 7 and 21 to Glenwick Lane, lot 31 to Straywick Court, lot 43 to Benwich Lane, and <br />44 lots 48 and 58 to Chadwick Lane. <br />45 7, if an entrance sign is anticipated and will not be placed within the 100-foot building buffer, maintained <br />46 by the Homeowners Association, a sign easement must be reserved within one of the residential lots. <br />47 8. All common areas (stream buffers, building buffers, landscape buffers) must be clearly identified on the <br />48 preliminary and final plats and maintained by the Homeowners Association, The common areas cannot <br />49 be subdivided or recombined with adjacent lots. Draft forms ofthe Homeowners Association <br />50 documents, including restrictive covenants and conservation easements, that contain use and <br />51 maintenance provisions for the open space and buffers must be submitted for review by the County <br />