Agenda 03-19-24; 4-a - Eno-New Hope Landscape Conservation Plan Presentation

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58 In the Facilitated Small Area Plan for Carrboro's Northern Study Area, Goal 1 promotes"patterns of growth which minimize negative impacts and maximize positive impacts on the community and the natural environment."Objectives for this goal include requiring clustered residential development and pursuing objectives under the plan's environmental quality goal. Implementation measures for this goal include: • setting standards for conservation lands and providing density options based on the percentage of land conserved • requiring"that all primary conservation areas be protected and designated as open space, regardless of the percentage of the development this encumbers,unless the strict provisions required to obtain a variance apply to a particular piece of property" • providing density incentives and disincentives to encourage conservation subdivisions • requiring greater detail about natural and cultural features on plans submitted for review • establishing interactive site plan review procedures that promote early understanding and planning to conserve a site's sensitive natural resources and contribute to"interconnected open space network protection." Goal 3 focuses on"conservation of natural and environmentally sensitive areas,and the protection of environmental quality."The objectives for this goal include: • the use of conservation overlay standards to determine site-specific stream buffer widths • creation of a resource or open space conservation district to prohibit development of natural and environmentally sensitive areas • pursuit of land acquisition or dedication strategies to protect important natural areas • mitigation of development impacts to streams and creeks • identification of primary and secondary conservation areas as defined in the town's land use ordinance Goal 6,"adequate provision of publicly accessible parks and recreation facilities,"focuses on establishing a system of connected greenways, including requiring"...developers of new subdivisions to lay out and construct neighborhood trails through their new developments in such a way that they will connect with and extend the Town's more formal greenway network." This goal also includes the objective of offering a de facto density bonus to obtain more than a 10-acre park from the UNC-owned Horace Williams Tract, to consist of natural areas in the Bolin Creek floodplain and an area of hardwood forest. Implementation measures for this goal include requiring conservation land, open space, and greenways in new subdivisions to interconnect. Goal 10,"encourage active farmland preservation,"describes several strategies that could support the maintenance of corridors that traverse working lands. The Carrboro Land Use Ordinance,Article IX,Zoning Districts and Zoning Map establishes a Conservation District"severely restricting development within and adjacent to certain lakes,ponds, watercourses, streams, creeks, drainage areas, floodplains,wetlands, and other flood-prone areas within the University Lake Watershed."Article IX also establishes a Village Mixed Use District that includes open space protection in two of its 10 required rezoning objectives: • "The preservation of open space, scenic vistas, agricultural lands and natural resources within the Town of Carrboro and its planning jurisdiction and to minimize the potential for conflict between such areas and other land uses." • "The creation of a distinct physical settlement surrounded by a protected landscape of generally open land used for agricultural, forest,recreational and environmental protection purposes." A Village Mixed Use rezoning application for property within the Orange-Carrboro Joint Planning Area "shall be denied if the application is inconsistent with the approved master plan in any substantial way. A Landscape Plan for Wildlife Habitat Connectivity 45