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a <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: May16, 2000 <br />SUBJECT: Buckhorn Ridge -Preliminary Plan <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning & Inspections <br />1 <br />Action A ends <br />Item # ` <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />1) Resolution of Approval <br />Jane A. Garrett <br />2) Application <br />Extension 2581 <br />3) Vicinity Map <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />4) Agency Comments <br />Hillsborough 732 -8181 <br />5) Fiscal Impact Analysis <br />Durham 688 -7331 <br />6) Preliminary Plan <br />Mebane 227 -2031 <br />Chapel Hill 967 -9251 <br />PURPOSE: Consideration of the Preliminary Plan for Buckhorn Ridge Subdivision. <br />BACKGROUND: <br />Request <br />Applicant: Kenneth Coulter, Sr., agent for Buckhorn Ridge Associates, LLC <br />• Subdivision follows the conventional plan. <br />• Twenty -nine (29) single - family residential lots proposed on a 141.67± acre tract. <br />• Average lot size for Lots 141 is 1.50 acres <br />• Average lot size for Lots 12 -23, 28 and 29 is 3.83 acres <br />• Average lot size for Lots 24 -27 is 11.40 acres <br />• Minimum lot size requirement for the zoning district is 40,000 sq. ft. <br />Location <br />• Cheeks Township and Bingham Township <br />• South side of Yarborough Road midway between Mebane -Oaks Road and Buckhorn Road <br />Existing Site Conditions <br />Zoning <br />AR and AR -Cane Creek Protected Watershed <br />• 8 acres (within Lots 24 and 25) located in Cane Creek Protected Watershed <br />• Adjacent Land Uses: Single - family residential and vacant <br />Physical Description <br />• Rolling land with a stream through the middle and at the southern end of the tract <br />• Timbered in last few years <br />Wetlands on a portion of the site <br />Proposed „Site Conditions <br />Roads: <br />• Access to subdivision is from Yarborough Road (SR 1138) <br />• Three proposed public roads to be constructed to NCDOT standards <br />