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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: May 15, 2001 <br />Action Age~da <br />Item No. <br />.SUBJECT: H~h_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$181 <br />5) Fiscal Impact Analysis Chapel Hill 968-450.1 <br />6) Preliminary Plan Durham fi88-7331 <br />7) 12-6-00 Draft Planning Board Minutes Mebane (336)227-2031 <br />8 See attached note concernin water resources <br />Continued from the March 20, 2001 meeting and tabled at the April 17, 2001 meeting for additional <br />information on the following items: <br />1) Report from the Environmental and Resource Conservation Department regarding the <br />"Investigation of Ground-Water Availability and Quality in Orange County, North Carolina" - <br />Received in the May 1, 2001 County Commissioner meeting. (See also attached water <br />resources information) <br />2) Pedestrian access to the Community Recreation area -Trails are proposed to the pocket park <br />and pedestrian access is provided to the open space common area between lots 9 & 10 and 14 <br />~ 15. <br />PURPOSE: Consideration of the flexible development Preliminary Plan for High Rock Farms <br />Phase One Subdivision. <br />BACKGROUND: <br />Request- Preliminary 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 />