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16 <br />io <br />areas outside of Transition and Urban areas where prevailing uses are rural <br />residential and agricultural in nature). <br />J9) AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY. See Existing Land Uses. <br />COMPLIES. This site is currently developed as a quarry operation and a raw water <br />storage facility. The rural residential, agricultural, and forestry uses which exist in <br />the vicinity have continued and expanded while this quarry has been in operation. <br />The applicant proposes to expand this quarry operation within the present site, <br />providing buffering where necessary to lessen development impact. <br />J10) POPULATION DENSITY. Located in areas of very low population density which is <br />dispersed in a manner typical of rural areas. <br />COMPLIES. Areas adjacent to the site are sparsely developed with single family <br />homes and manufactured housing with higher residential densities to the north and <br />west. <br />J11) HISTORIC AND CULTURAL. Located. away from areas where extractive uses <br />would have a detrimental impact on state or federally acknowledged historic/cultural sites <br />or County-idenf ified Public Interest Areas. <br />COMPLIES. There are no state or federally acknowledged historic/cultural sites or <br />County-identified Public Interest Areas in the vicinity of the proposed amendment. <br />There are however, 2 churches, one cemetery, and one community site in the area as <br />identified in the 1986 "Inventory of Sites of Cultural, Historical, Recreational, <br />Biological, and Geological Significance in the Unincorporated Portions of Orange <br />County". Hickory Grove Baptist Church and Bethel Bapfist Church are located one- <br />half mile northeast of the proposed operation. The Tarheel Sertoma Club ,and an <br />unnamed cemetery are located approximately three-fourths of a mile west of this site. <br />