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70 • TOWN OF CHAPEL HILL Planning Department 405 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Chapel Hill, NC 27514-5705 phone(919)968-2728 email planning@townofchapelhill.org www.townofchapelhill.org Requested Modifications to Regulations ProjectHoly Trinity Anglican Church • • CZD-25-6 LUMO Section Section 3.8.2(k) Maximum Floor Area Ratio • Maximum .23 floor area ratio in the R-4 district Requested Allow a maximum of 6,500 sf house on each of two subdivided lots fronting Old Lystra Modification Road. It is the intent of this article to provide for performance standards which serve to define the development character of an area, and to ensure the compatibility of development both with the environmental characteristics, accessibility levels, and special amenities offered by the development site and with surrounding land uses and development intensities. It is further intended that the establishment of intensity regulations reflect the protection of critical environmental areas and the suitability of land for a particular level Purpose or Intent of development intensity, in accord with the goals and objectives of the comprehensive Regulationof plan.The setback and height regulations established in the dimensional matrix are intended to ensure adequate solar access, privacy, and ventilation; access to and around buildings, off-street parking areas, loading space, and service areas; space for landscaping; and spacing between buildings and portions of buildings to reduce potential adverse effects of noise, odor, glare, or fire. Adequate solar access is deemed to consist of varying levels of access ranging from rooftop solar access in high-intensity zoning districts to south wall solar access in low-intensity zoning districts. The owner intends to subdivide up to 2 buidling lots, each of a size over 1 acre, to be sold to individuals to build single family homes. The homes will be internal to the site and not visible from Old Lystra Road. The owner is asking for a modification to exceed Justificationthe LUMO floor area ratio so that future individual owners may build larger homes. The homes will be built on lots exceeding 1 acre in size in character with the residential density in the surrounding area, and home size will ultimately be constrained by the capacity of the septic field on each of the two lots. • Section 5.5.2 Recreation— Minimum Recreation Space • .039 Active Recreation Space Ratio Requested Provision of active recreation space on site to service the 35,400 sf tiny home future phase and to exclude provision of active recreation for the two single family homes lots •• which will be subdivided and developed by individual homeowners. Purpose or Intent Purpose statement. The town hereby finds and determines that an interconnected Regulationof system of parks, trails,greenways, and bikeways provides a greater public benefit 2