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<br /> North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission <br />Ingram Cameron, Executive Director <br /> <br />Mailing Address: Habitat Conservation • 1721 Mail Service Center • Raleigh, NC 27699-1721 <br />Telephone: (919) 707-0220 • Fax: (919) 707-0028 <br /> <br />MEMORANDUM <br /> <br />TO: Lyn Biles, Environmental Assistance and SEPA Coordinator <br /> NCDENR Division of Environmental Assistance and Customer Services <br /> <br />FROM: Olivia Munzer, Western Piedmont Coordinator <br /> Habitat Conservation <br /> <br />DATE: 11 April 2024 <br /> <br />SUBJECT: Scoping for the Woods and Woodsedge Planned Development in Hillsborough, Orange <br />County, North Carolina. DEQ No. 24-0240. <br /> <br /> <br />Biologists with the North Carolina Wildlife Resource Commission (NCWRC) have reviewed the subject <br />document. Comments are provided in accordance with provisions of the Fish and Wildlife Coordination <br />Act (48 Stat. 401, as amended; 16 U.S.C. 661-667e) and North Carolina General Statutes (G.S. 113-131 <br />et seq.). <br /> <br />Capkov Ventures, Inc. (applicant) is requesting to modify the Special Use Permit for The Woods and <br />Woodsedge Mobile Home Park located south of Watestone Drive and east of Interstate 40 in <br />Hillsborough, Orange County, North Carolina. The applicant proposes to use the 50 acres south of the <br />mobile home park for future homes and neighborhood-oriented businesses and they propose to <br />redistribute the open space to the edges and along streams. <br /> <br />Unnamed tributaries to Stony Creek flow through the site. Stony Creek is in the Neuse River Basin, and it <br />is classified as a Class C and Nutrient Sensitive Water by the NC Division of Water Resources. We have <br />no known records of state or federal rare, threatened, or endangered species; however, the lack of records <br />from the site does not imply or confirm the absence of federal or state-listed species. An on-site survey is <br />the only means to determine if the proposed project may impact federal or state rare, threatened, or <br />endangered species. We have known records for the state endangered and federal proposed endangered <br />tricolored bat (Perimyotis subflavus) in Orange County and potentially suitable habitat may occur on the <br />site. We recommend contacting the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to ensure that any issues related to this <br />species are addressed. <br />We offer the following recommendations to further minimize impacts to aquatic and terrestrial wildlife <br />resources: <br />1. The several hundred feet of 100-foot buffer/open space along E. Scarlett Mountain Road provides <br />minimal benefit to wildlife. Similarly, the isolated open space under the powerline will be <br />maintained by Duke Energy; therefore, it should not be considered as open space. Instead, we <br />244