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Acquisition Evaluation Template Red .Hill Farm Eno Township, between US 70 and I-85 This parcel of 264 acres is located between US 70 and Interstate 85, west of University Station Road and adjacent to Seven Springs. subdivision. Ithas been owned by Sally B. Feather as trustee of The Rhine Foundation in Durham (affiliated with Duke University), and. is being sold to Bill Hendrickson, manager of Neighborhood Farms, Ms. Feather (Mr. Hendrickson's wife and heir of the Rhine family), and Ron Kumin of Dominion Development of Durham. The soon-to-be owners have received offers from two development corporations for the property, and also have expressed general .plans fora 10-acre lot development of their own for the property. Mr. Hendrickson approached ERC Director David Stancil at a Kiwanis Club meeting to ask about the County's interest in purchasing all or part of the land. Comprehensive.Plan? The property is categorized Rural Residential, Lower Eno Watershed.There are Resource Protection Areas identified along the northern and western portions of the property. Zoning?: R-1, Lower Eno Watershed, and part in Major Transportation Corridor (MTC). The entire property is zoned R-1, which allows one dwelling per 40,000 square feet (0.92 acres). The southern half of the property .(nearest I- 85) falls within the Major Transportation Corridor overlay district. The MTC would require a site plan be submitted for any development other than single-family or duplex, and a 100-foot buffer from the edge of the right-of-way. The Lower Eno watershed is a WS-IV run-of-river watershed and has no additional requirements except for maximum im envious surfaces of 70% and stream buffers. Natural Areas Inventory None present. The western half of the property contains an and Resource Checkiist identified area of prime forest, at the lower of three tiers of .rated forest in the new TLC re ort. .Existing vegetation and . The western 2/3 of the property is wooded, with mixed site analysis hardwood and pine. The property from the 4-acre pond east to University Station Road and south to I-85 is generally afirst-second growth wooded area - predominantly pine with interspersed hardwoods. The only. cleared portions of the property are along an old driveway to a homesite in the west-central part of the site, and around the pond. Some logging in a prior decade appears to have occurred along the north-central portion of the property. There is significant slope to the western h-' the property as a wooded ridge climbs 215 fee* " west.