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95 <br /> 1 % Hands Four Development Cooperative <br /> --`?'YY iddlle(ead PO Box 1201 Carrboro NC 27510 <br /> 4" Corner HandsFourDevelopment@gmailxom <br /> Hands Four Development Cooperative <br /> Tree Preservation, Land Use Buffers and Landscape Plan <br /> March 20, 2024 <br /> Landscape Design for Fiddlehead Corner has interlocking layers of meaning. <br /> Rural Character- The existing "rural" character of southwestern Orange County is many faceted <br /> with active farmland, fallow fields, regenerated forests on former farmland, and rural activity <br /> nodes at the crossroads of primary roadways. Since the late 1990s, the streetscape of many <br /> primary and secondary roads has been slowly changed with introduction of large single-family <br /> homes within a travelers' viewshed. <br /> For the Fiddlehead Corner, the rural tree lined roadway character of Morrow Mill Road and Gold <br /> Mine Road will be maintained with Land Use buffers of existing natural plants & trees of 75' or <br /> 100' depending upon the roadway segment. With the exception of the Cheek property [PIN <br /> 9739-62-0415], adjoining properties will have buffers of 75 or 100 feet. The Cheek property will <br /> have a 25 feet existing vegetation buffer of about 1,200 LF along Fiddlehead Drive as it enters <br /> the site from Morrow Mill Road. There is no Land Use Buffer proposed for the remainder of the <br /> Cheek property that shares a property line with Fiddlehead Corner. All these buffers are shown <br /> on the Illustrative Master Plan Concept exhibits and the Civil Engineering drawings. <br /> ■ The applicant proposes to do a tree survey prior to submission of any detailed site plans. <br /> ■ Just as important as the adopted buffers, the land immediately behind the buffers will also <br /> be forested. The two required entrance/exit roadways will have a limited visual impact on <br /> either street or the neighbors whose homes face the streets. <br /> Internal Natural Landscape —Approximately 85 of the 90 acres in Fiddlehead Corner are <br /> presently forested, primarily in a mix of hardwoods and pines that have grown in a natural <br /> successional manner since the discontinuation of farming on the property 30 years ago. <br /> The Fiddlehead Commons development proposes to retain 60± acres of the 90-acre site in <br /> natural landscape with 30± acres of the site developed for residential and community support <br /> activity. To provide for the long-term health of the vegetation within the property, stream <br /> corridors and perimeter buffers, the applicant will undertake the minimal but important removal <br /> of invasive species of trees, shrubs, and grasses as well as the removal of dead trees and <br /> branches that might be a fire hazard. <br /> Landscape Statement 2024-03-20.docx Page 1 of 2 <br />