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U~~ <br />1 <br />.TOI1`'T PLF,TdT•IING BEARING <br />January 23, 1884 <br />'~ I~~~OT•:AIIS~S~QP2E~:~_~ESEI~~_ <br />Don Cs'illhoit (chair) . Shirley T•larshall, Ben Lloyd, Norman C•~?alker, Richard <br />T?hitted. <br />p ~ is r=~ ~a S ~4 A~ P _ l? R~ ~+~, <br />Alice Cordon, (Acting Chair), Valerie Greenberg, Steve I:izer, Tdancy <br />i <br />_._ Laszlo, Frank Pea.rsan, Sharlene Pilkey, David Shanl:lin, Carl V7alters. <br />PI~A~717~~,~D.%_F PP.ES ~EY'T: <br />Alarvin Collins, Jeff Coutu, Susan Smith, Joanna Bradshaw, Sue Snaman <br />PUBLIC HEARINGS- Chairec by Alice Gordon <br />Proposed Principal Amenament to the Land Use Plan requested by Trendsetter <br />•ciomes, inc. (LUP 84-1) <br />This agenda item is to receive public comment on the proposed principal <br />amendment to the Land Use Plan for 20+ acres located north of Eubanks Road and <br />west of the TIC £36/Eubanl:s Roar (5R 1727) intersection from Rural Buffer to <br />Twenty-Rear Transition. <br />It was noted by Smith t)~at this was a secondary amendment, not a principal <br />amendment as specified on the abstract. <br />Presentation by Smith as follows: <br />The applicant, Trendsetter Homes, Inc., has requested an arnenciment to the <br />Land Use Plan for Oranue County to redesignate approximately 20 acres of a <br />tract identifies: on Ta:: Asap 18 as Lot 8, located on the north site of Eubanks <br />Road west of A'C 86 in Chapel Hill To'vlnship and containing 43.66 Gcres frog <br />Rural Buffer to Twenty Year zrarsitiar_. The portion of the lot under <br />consideration fronts on SR 1727 Eubanks Road. <br />The redesignation of an area from one plan category to anotl-,er requires <br />the application of locational criteria to determine suitability for <br />redesignatior, from Rural Buffer to Twenty Year Transition Area. These <br />locational criteria are given and compared in the agenda. They include an <br />evaluation of land slope, hydrology, flora and fauna, soil conditions, public <br />services/utilities, historic and cultural facilities, transportation system, <br />energy use, existing land use, agriculture and Forestry, anti population <br />density. The area meets the criteria for land slope, hydrology, flora anG <br />fauna, soil conditions, historic and cultural facilities, energy. use, <br />agriculture and forestry, and poses no undesirable impact under These <br />conditions. <br />Further consideration, however, should be given to the locatiar_al criteria <br />_- public services/utilities, transportation system, existing land use and <br />population density. <br />With regard to public services and utilities the locational criteria for <br />the Ten Xear Transition Area assur.~es that the area is or can reasonably and <br />efficiently be served by centralized public services and utilities. OTvASA has <br />provided same comments on the extension of public water and sever to servo the <br />area. Both water and sewer facilities extend as far as Timberlyne Shopping <br />Center located northeast of the site, south or" Cleaver Dairy Foal. Cvith the <br />construction of the Aiunn •Iountain elevates water tanl: later this year south of <br />Timberlyne, water sezvice could be extended to the area and beyond. Hovrever, <br />the area under consideration is located in the i3e1;~ Rope Creel: sub-basin. Tl~e <br />sub-basin runs approxiraateiy throuch the southernmost portion of A~orthwoods <br />subc;ivision lacated south of the araa under consideration. OT~ASb mss nnr. <br />