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Bite: 58.24± acres Comprehensive Land Use Classification: Agricultural Residential Area Adjacent Propertv Zoni AR (Agricultural Residential) and PD-H-R2 (Churton Grove Subdivision) to the west Current Conditions . The business is located in a former farm building on a historic site known as Sunnysitle. • The farm building is approximately 200 feet from the Baldwin Road right-&-way. • Two greenhouses are located behind the building. • The site has numerous hardwood trees on the site. • The property is not located within a Watershed Protection Overlay District. . Nancy Hill Creek (aka Shrouds Creek) foes through the southwest comer of the property on its way to the Eno River. • There is an outdoor material stockpile/storage area near the northern end of the property shown on the site plan. Future Repudiate As a pan of the application, the applicant has requested a separation of the business property from the historic residence. As indicated at the Public Heaing, this land use is a reuse of an historic property. Without the historic property zoning designation for the entire tract, Reba and Roses would not be permitted to operate under the current ordinance. Staff is currently working on a reclassification of these types of quasi- farrnlretail uses to determine the zoning perimeters and site considerations under which uses such as these should operate. A report is forthcoming this spring from a worogroup composed of the Economic Development Director, Agricultural Extension Director, Planning Director, Zoning Officer and Agricultural Economic Development Specialist. Also, in the attached letter, the applicant has identified projected, future structures and improvements that are being ormomplated but are not shown on the site plan, Staff does not recommend approval of any structures not shown on the site plan. On the northern pad of the property, beyond the onchaMS, there is an area currently being used for outdoor storage and stockpiling of landscape materials (i. a. mulch, landscape debris, etc). This area Is subject to the bufferyard requirements of the zoning ordinance which is a 75-foot buffer composed of predominantly (at least ]5%) evergreen vegetation that is opaque to a height of at least thirty (30) feet at full growth. The buffer will be approximately 200 feet long on each aide of fire stockpiled area (see page 33). The purpose is to create a visual screen between this stockpile and existing residential neighborhoods across the street as a continuing 'good neighbor' policy. The Orange County Fire Marshall inspected the property during the last week of October and found that it was in compliance with the N.C. Fire Prevention Code. The Inspections Division of the Planning and Inspections Department visited the site on November 2, 2001, and the report from that visit is attached.