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~s <br />• 13 <br />areas outside of Transition and Urban areas where prevailing uses are rural <br />residential and agricultural in nature). <br />C9) AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY. Located at sites within rural areas that would not <br />unreasonably intrude upon the existing landscape character. <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 the <br />vicinity have continued and expanded while this quarry has been in operation. The <br />applicant proposes to expand this quarry operation within the present site. <br />C10) POPULATION DENSITY. Located in areas with a very low-density rural population. <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 />Cll) HISTORIC AND CULTURAL. Located away from areas where development would <br />have a detrimental impact on state or federally acknowledged historic-cultural sites or <br />County identified 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 Baptist Church are located <br />approximately one-half mile northeast of the proposed operation. The Tarheel <br />Sertoma Club and an unnamed cemetery are approximately three-fourths of a mile <br />west of this site. <br />