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HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgenda - 11-17-1998 - 9fI ORANGECOUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: November 17, 1998 Action Agenda Item #_94 SUBJECT: PRICE CREEK ESTATES -- PRELIMINARY PLAN ACTION BY: December 15, 1998 DEPARTMENT: PLANNING PUBLIC HEARING: Yes _X_No BUDGET AMENDMENT REQUIRED: Yes _X No ATTACHMENT(S): Application Resolution of Approval Maps Preliminary Plan Planning Board Minutes of 10 -7 -98 Recreation and Parks Advisory Council Recommendation INFORMATION CONTACT: Karen Lincoln EXTENSION: 2583 TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough -732-8181 Durham -688-7331 Mebane -227-2031 Chapel Hill -968-4501 PURPOSE: Consideration of the Preliminary Plan for Price Creek Estates BACKGROUND: The northern portion of the proposed 21 -lot Price Creek Estates major subdivision straddles the Orange - Chatham County Line in Chapel Hill Township. Proposed lots 11 & 12 lie partially in Orange County. The 19 other lots have already received approval from Chatham County (Phase I, Lots 1 - 9, was recorded in Chatham County Register of Deeds Office on March 17, 1998, and Phase II, Lots 10 - 12, was recorded in that office on April 21, 1998). Access to the proposed subdivision is exclusively through Orange County via Booth Road (SR 1531) and newly named Amber Wood Run (changed from Price Creek Drive in the Concept Plan because of duplication), a proposed public residential street which intersects with Booth Road. (The public road has been constructed and NCDOT has given the Chatham County Planning Department documentation that the road meets their minimum construction standards.) The Orange County portions of Lots 11 & 12 (totaling five acres) are to be created from an existing parcel of record (Tax Map No. 7. 120.39). 2' A major subdivision application is required in Orange County because a new public road —Amber Wood Run —is being dedicated. Booth Road runs into US 15 -501 in the Starpoint Community, just south of the Orange County Line near the Smith Level Road intersection. To the north, Booth Road ends in the Orange County subdivision of Oak Crest adjacent to Price Creek Estates. Surrounding land uses are residential. The adopted Land Use Element of the Comprehensive Plan designates the area as Rural Buffer, and the current zoning is RB(UNIV -PW)--Rural Buffer (University Lake Protected Watershed). Flexible Development regulations do not apply in the Rural Buffer. Much of the acreage slopes to the west draining into the East Branch of Price Creek which flows into University Lake approximately one mile north. The lots will be served by individual wells and septic systems. Given that Chatham and Orange Counties are in different DOT districts, letters from NCDOT are included in the attachments to explain how construction of the proposed road and future maintenance will be reviewed and implemented. The property's western boundary in Orange County borders East Branch of Price Creek for approximately 250 feet. The calculated stream buffer width for lot 12 adjacent to East Branch of Price Creek ranges from 50 to 100 feet beyond the 100 -year flood line, depending on types of vegetative cover and percent -of -slope calculations. Including the floodplain, the stream buffer line lies 160 -180 feet from the creek. The Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan designates floodplains and wetlands along drainage tributaries and steep slope areas (15% or greater) as resource protection areas which form the basis for a comprehensive parks and open space system linked by the greenways along drainageways and pedestrian routes along thoroughfares. Orange County Subdivision Regulations require dedication of resource protection areas or payment in lieu of such dedication as a means of acquiring such areas. Section IV -B -7- b-6 of the Orange County Subdivision Regulations further stipulates that before approving a payment in lieu of dedication, the Board of Commissioners shall find that no recreation and/or open space sites have been designated on the adopted Comprehensive Plan for the property in question. As provided by the subdivision regulations, the minimum dedication of resource protection areas on the site is one - twentieth (1/20) of an acre for each dwelling unit. For two dwelling units, the required minimum dedication of resource protection area is 4,356 square feet. [In addition, the zoning ordinance requires a minimum recreation space ratio of .028 for lots within the Rural Buffer. The recreation space ratio for the five acres in Price Creek Estates that lie in Orange County is 6,098.4 square feet. The ordinance requires the difference between the area required for recreation and the area required to be dedicated for resource protection (in this case, 1,742.2 square feet) to be established as private recreation use for the residents of the development.] At one time the property was located entirely within Chatham County. Orange and Chatham Counties agreed on a new location of the county line in 1989. The boundary J was moved south approximately 240 feet. The Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan was adopted October 13. 1986. The Orange County Board of Commissioners approved the resurvey of the Orange /Chatham County boundary which affected the subject property on August 15, 1989. On November 3, 1998, the Orange County Recreation and Parks Advisory Council, by consensus, recommended payment in lieu of the dedication of greenway area for the two lots in Orange County for the following reasons. 1. The minimum amount of land required for dedication would result in a very narrow strip (17.5 feet approx.) east of Price Creek and would not adequately accommodate a trail that could adjoin dedicated recreation area in Oak Crest Subdivision to the north. 2. Only two lots of the subdivision are in Orange County and any trail established in the greenway would dead end 250 feet south at the Chatham County line. 3. Price Creek is very low in elevation and a large floodplain area would require a much greater width to construct even a primitive trail. Trails meandering along streams require a greenway width of 30 - 50 feet or more in order to reach higher elevations and to circumvent trees and slopes. 4. The county line was resurveyed in 1989 and the proposed area to be dedicated was not part of Orange County at the time the Joint Land Use Plan was adopted. This area, therefore, is not included in that plan. The Orange County Fire Marshal and EMS indicate that the subdivision can be served adequately by their respective agencies. In researching the issue of accepting payment in lieu of park land dedication, planning staff discovered that Orange Affiliated Partners, developers of Oak Crest Subdivision, never recorded the approved deed for the public dedication of parcels 35 and 36 as identified on the tax map 120, Chapel Hill Township. The dedication of the two tracts, a 2.43 acre tract and a 3.91 acre tract, for public use for natural areas and recreation/open space purposes was a condition of approval for that subdivision (approved April, 1989). On October 7, 1998, the Planning Board approved the Preliminary Plan for Price Creek Estates per the attached Resolution of Approval. The vote was unanimous. RECOMMENDATION: The administration recommends approval of the Price Creek Estates Preliminary Plan. The administration further recommends that Orange Affiliated Partners be contacted to complete documentation for that subdivision (complete conveyance to Orange County of the area dedicated for public use in Oak Crest Subdivision as provided per condition of approval for that subdivision). ,�_ _. -..o-. _:. .'i.+�:•a.<- swef.�.:.s'r,..... - .,... -. -.:� � :.4...,..�:�_•,:�1.r yw_ti�r -i�•..w.s.v i APPLICATIO "'- FOR PRELIMINARY PLC ^' APPROVAL 4 MAJOR SUBDIVISION ORANGE COUNTY (� a /s3 DATE: q u6-1 . 3 9a PLEASE TYPE OR PRINT (INK ONLY) SUBDIVISION NAME: f R} CE C-z2EIL ESTATES LOCATION: C-1 4T'L+,Cr Yl CO, LI )3E O N OWNER /DEVELOPER: ���C.E C2Ec}c_ L�- VFtOPrr LV� �02�- �a�a�oN ADDRESS: -P [� P�C�C Z2 S3 TELEPHONE NO.: 919 - 9(-S - AGENT /CONTACT: 1ZHtcC.L. TELEPHONE NO.: 19- G�Z -9zzZ 919- 7z9 --4r1-7 A. SUMMARY INFORMATION: ^► Orange County Tax Map Block Lot(s) _ Tawnship C44P&L- I41t- Zoning District(s): V Uar- - Z o (-*G_ M , r' J I M LlrN L47- AI V- Phi Total Number of Acres: 113C • 2.o•w• Phases: I Total Number of Lots: Z Average Lot Size: 3.3 Ct_ Minimum I-at Size: Number/Type of Structures: (existing) NONE (proposed) �_ SI,uG _pl Lineal Feet in Streets: ZCC % r- Acres in Open Space: N6"I= Water Supply: —f\JA- Public (specify) 4,14 - Community (,UC —t;L_ Individual Wastewater Disposal: -NA-- Public (specify) —NJA- Community SE-:Pl -lC. Individual School District: C-•42QB Fire District: _ GPA7=f,� General Land Uses in Area: TIL --- Critical Areas: PK(CE CZEE1L stream /drainageways Iv 0 QS flood prone areas Ulf 1 V. — P W watershed (specify) (� c rnAX historic sites other (explain) Is the property to be subdivided currently under 'farm use value taxation'? Yes_ No -. if 'yes', please contact the Orange County Tax Office. Subdivision of the property may require payment of deferred taxes under 'farm use value taxation'. S. All plats must be submitted on sheet no smaller than one inch equals two- hundred feet (1'x200'1 and no larger than one inch equals twenty feet (1'20') and must contain the fo(lowing'information: y- subdivision name _ zoning of tract and adjacent name & address of awner(s) properties name & address of subdivider building setback lines by notation (if other than owner) or typical lot layout > name of surveyor, engineer, V location and width of existing and C landscape architect or architect, proposed easements (drainage, address, re istration x and seal C utilities, roads, etc.) v/ (title) Preliminary Plan u' existing. J � ry g, proposed and adjoining scale, north arrow rights -of -way including dimensions C) date (including revision dates) and street names and state road (r1 U township, tax map- black -lat numbers. Lineal feet of road w references centerlines and approximate Parent Parcel Identification acreage of new street rights -of- CU Q ? deed bock and page p at property / way w to be subdivided V existing and proposed utilities, -4 CC >` f ? boundary described with bearings including type, sizes, hydrants, G E c " and distances _ valves, manholes , �o V total acreage of the tract and existing and proposed curbs, acreage of lots, including and gutters and culverts, including U 7 excluding area within rights -of- sizes and grades a� co L L / way -''' location and width of alleys, v ✓ control corner sidewalks, bike lanes, transit systems, and bus stops (please complete reverse side) RESOLUTION ..81M THE ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Date Name of Subdivision Owner /Applicant November 4. 1998 Price Creek Estates Price Creek Development Corporation Warren D. Mitchell, P.E. and John A. McPhaul. III The Board of County Commissioners hereby approves those portions of lots 11 & 12 within Orange Countv as shown on the Price Creek Estates Subdivision preliminary plat dated August 20, 1998, subject to fulfillment of requirements specified herein. That section of Amber Wood Run located in Orange County shall be irrevocably dedicated to the general public and be constructed to standards of the North Carolina Department of Transportation ( NCDOT). The approval of this resolution authorizes and directs the Orange County Manager to accept for the County, and on behalf of the public generally, the offer of dedication of the aforesaid segment of Amber Wood Run. This acceptance of dedication to the general public shall be without maintenance responsibility. This road shall be maintained by the owner /applicant (Pace Creek Development Corporation) until such time as it is accepted for maintenance by NCDOT or some other governmental body. Before the Final Plat of Price Creek Estates Subdivision can be recorded: A. Sewage Disposal Lots 11 & 12 shall contain adequate septic disposal and repair areas, approved by the Orange County Division of Environmental Health. Disclosure that the septic system location may restrict the size and location of improvements shall be included in a document describing development restrictions to be recorded concurrently with the Final Plat. The document disclosing that information on the tentative location of septic systems is available from the Division of Environmental Health. B. Roads and access 1. That segment of Amber Wood Run located in Orange County shall be constructed to NCDOT standards within a 50 -foot right -of -way. Construction shall be inspected and approved by NCDOT. �� . 6 A letter of credit or escrow agreement or other security shall be submitted to secure construction of that part of Amber Wood Run within Orange County to NCDOT standards. An estimate of the construction cost must be prepared by a certified/licensed engineer or grading contractor and submitted to the Orange County Planning Department. The financial guarantee must reflect 110 percent of that estimate and be issued by an accredited financial institution licensed to do business in North Carolina. The document describing development restrictions to be recorded with the Final Plat shall state that the financial guarantee will not be released until the road construction has been inspected and approved by NCDOT. 2. An erosion control plan for construction of that portion of Amber Wood Run which lies in Orange County shall be submitted by the applicant to the Orange County Erosion Control Division for review and approval. An approved street name sign shall be erected at the intersection of Amber Wood Run and Booth Road, as required in Section IV- B- 3 -c -12 Street Name Signs of the Orange County Subdivision Regulations. The applicant shall submit either evidence that the sign is in place or a receipt for purchase of the sign. 4. Access to lots 11 & 12 shall be from Amber Wood Run exclusively. No lots shall have direct driveway access onto Booth Road. C. Land Use Buffers and Landscaping Landscaping shall be installed or preserved as indicated on the approved landscape. plan for lots 11 & 12 and must be inspected and approved by the Planning Department. 2. Provisions for protection of existing trees as shown on the approved landscape. plan shall be included in a document describing development restrictions and requirements to be prepared by Planning Staff and recorded concurrently with the Final Plat. D. Drainage Impervious surface data for lots 11 & 12, pursuant to Article 6.23 Extra Requirements for Watershed Protection Overlay Districts of the Zoning Ordinance, shall be included in the development restrictions and requirements document to be prepared by Planning Staff and recorded concurrently with the Final Plat. 2. Drainage easement for lot 11, as required, shall be located following review and approval of the Erosion Control Plan. A stream buffer for lot 12, as proposed on the Preliminary Plat, shall be contained entirely within the area indicated on the Preliminary Plan. The width will range from 50 to 100 feet beyond the 100 -year flood line, depending upon vegetative cover types and percent -of -slope calculations as set forth in Article 6.23.7 51rearn Buffers of the Zoning Ordinance. 4. Drainage culverts shall be sized and located as required by NCDOT and the Erosion Control Officer. E. Parkland There are two lots (1 I & 12) to be created within the Orange County portion of the proposed 21 -lot Price Creek Estates subdivision. As per the decision of the Department of Recreation and Parks, cash in the amount of 5910 (S455 X 2 lots) shall be paid to Orange County as payment -in -lieu of parkland dedication. F. Miscellaneous The Final Plat shall contain a title block and vicinity map in accordance with Section V -D -2 Title Block and V -D -3 Vicinitv ylap of the Subdivision Regulations. 2. The following easement shall be shown on the plat: a. Drainage easement as required above in 1 D.2. Minimum building setbacks shall be stated on the plat and in a document describing development restrictions and requirements to be prepared by Planning Staff and recorded concurrently with the Final Plat. G. Certifications A Certificate of Survey and Accuracy signed by a registered Land Surveyor shall be notarized on the face of the Final Plat. 2. A Dedication and Maintenance Certificate, as provided in Section V -D -6 -b Certificates of Dedication and Maintenance of the Subdivision Regulations. signed by the landowner and developer, shall be on the face of the plat and included in a document describing development restrictions to be recorded concurrently with the Final Plat. NCDOT shall certify that Amber Wood Run has been constructed to State standards or that construction plans have been approved. 3 4. A Certificate of Approval shall be signed by the Planning Department. Warren D. Mitchell, P.E. Beverly A. Blythe Price Creek Development Corporation Clerk to the Board of County Commissioners John A. McPhaul, III Price Creek Development Corporation We, Warren D. Mitchell and John A. McPhaul, for and on behalf of Price Creek Development Corporation, accept the above listed conditions of subdivision approval and acknowledge that each must be met prior to recordation of the final plat. Warren D. Mitchell, P.E. John A. 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M,VCIUUM IuVERw0U5 ; «k"^�'��0'�+'1 7. 10T5 i. �O. �S. �+ND t3 �RE OwaED Bv CURVE RnDNS iu�CEM �NG'N DEIi� CNORO CH.BEARINC � BMAWIN TpWNSHIP, CNA1NA1d COUNTV SUR�ACE AREA�6Y. � � j PRICE CREEK OEVELOPYQlT CONPORATION C-1 260.00' 38.60' '6.6�' 16"53'2�' J6.J7' S 52'3�'S2'E � PUT BOOK REFERENCG 80-2t 7,120..J9 B. 100 YEAR FL000 PWN BWNO�Rr NOi OEFINEO BY �'7 20.00' 25.l5' 36.11' t03'25'S7' }I ep' S 09'IE'0�'f � ' � § (oavice eaMrr)vne_7e-seex C-3 26�.�5' 33.16' 6598' la'17'e0' 65.8t' S �9'3�'23"'N �6m FEw� ��P ,�J70299 0075 B. CH�TOw COUNtt, NC. C-� 755.00' ••.79' 88.67' �9'S3':1' 8812' S �6'�S'�5"w �f s � oa�7as�Se� BOUNOARY SHOwN wA5 �PPRO%11.1AiE0 87 TOVOGRMHY. C-5 155.00' 15.69' JL33' .-02'72' Jt.JI' S J3'18'SJ'w k � n g CH�PEI HI�� fOWNSHIP, ORPNCE COUNfV S7REAA1 BUFFER OEiERU1NE0 BY AVERAf,E $IOPE METH00. C-6 189.�5' 3 C-7 230.00' .� ' 12 developer has contacted NCDOT concerning that possibility and NCDOT will not grant driveway access for those lots due to poor visibility. Price expressed concern about the suitability of property along the eastern side of the site for development since it is shown as conservation area (some steep slopes) in the conservation plan. She wanted to know why that area is proposed as open space. Mr. Cogswell responded that the conservation plan uses that area to provide continuity between common open space area in the northern portion of the plan and the privately held open space along the creek in the southern portion of the plan. MOTION: Woods moved not to accept the conventional plan and to ask the applicant to resubmit the conservation plan with the following revisions: end Windfall Lane at (extension of) Old Forest Drive and make lot 16 a flag lot and limit access to lots 1 -4 with one (1) driveway entrance across the creek. Barrows stated that the Board cannot vote for the plans individually - must vote to approve or not approve both plans. MOTION: Woods moved to deny both plans. Seconded by Price. VOTE: 3 in favor (Woods, Price, Searles). 7 opposed (Andrews, Barrows, Brooks, Katz, ivlcAdams, Strayhom, Walters). MOTION: Walters moved to approve both plans with recommendations except for the connection of the public road to Old Forest Drive. Barrows asked if Walters would amend her motion to state that the connection not be made contingent on documentation from EMS that the connection is not needed. Walters amended the motion as requested. Katz seconded the motion as amended. VOTE: 7 in favor (Andrews, Barrows, Brooks, Kau, McAdams, Strayhom, Walters). 3 opposed (Price, Searles, Woods). b. Preliminary Plans (1) Price Creek Estates Presentation by Jim Hinkley. The northern portion of the proposed 21 -lot Price Creek Estates major subdivision straddles the Orange- Chatham County Line in Chapel Hill Township. Proposed lots I 1 & 12 lie partially in Orange County. The 19 other lots have already received approval from Chatham County. Access to the proposed subdivision is exclusively through Orange County via Booth Road (SR 153 1) and newly named Amber Wood Run (changed from Price Creek Drive in the Concept Plan because of duplication), a proposed public residential street which intersects with Booth Road. The Orange County portions of Lou 11 & 12 (totaling five acres) are to be created from an existing parcel of record (Tax Map No. 7.120.39). 13 A major subdivision application is required in Orange County because a new public road - Amber Wood Run - is being dedicated. The Orange County Fire Marshal and EMS indicate that the subdivision can be served adequately by their respective agencies. The Planning Board approved the Concept Plan at its meeting June 3, 1993 with the condition that the name Price Creek Drive must be chanted to one that is not duplicative of other road names in Orange County. Please note that on the proposed Preliminary Plat the name of the road has been changed to Amber Wood Run. This new name has been approved by the Planning Staff. At one time the property was located entirely within Chatham County. Orange and Chatham Counties agreed on a new location of the county line in 1990 -91. The boundary was moved south approximately 240 feet. Booth Road runs into US 15 -501 in the Starpoint Community, just south of the Orange County Line near the Smith Level Road intersection. To the north, Booth Road ends in the Orange County subdivision of Oak Crest adjacent to Price Creek Estates. Surrounding land uses are residential. The adopted Land Use Element of the Comprehensive Plan designates the area as Rural Buffer, and the current zoning is RB(UNIV -PW)- -Rural Buffer (University Lake Protected Watershed). Flexible Development regulations do not apply in the Rural Buffer. Much of the acreage slopes to the west draining into the East Branch of Price Creek which flows into University Lake approximately one mile north. The lots will be served by individual wells and septic systems. Given that Chatham and Orange Counties are in different DOT districts, letters from NCDOT included in the abstract attachments explain how construction of the proposed road and future maintenance will be reviewed and implemented. The calculated stream buffer width for lot 12 adjacent to East Branch of Price Creek ranges from 50 to 100 feet beyond the 100 -year flood line, depending on types of vegetative cover and percent -of -slope calculations. Including the floodplain, the stream buffer line lies 160 -180 feet from the creek. The Planning Staff recommends approval of the Preliminary Plan for Price Creek Estates per the Resolution of Approval (an attachment to these minutes on pages tiIOTIOIY: Andrews moved approval per the Resolution of Approval as recommended by the Planning Staff. Seconded by Strayhorn. VOTE: Unanimous. E CG N c Orange irounr Recreation and Pazks Depart anent H p.0. Box 5 i8 • '.iCo w. T:ycn Suet • HiisL—rovgh. NC 2-2 -S TO: Karen Lincoln Orange County Planning Department FR0�1: B Director DATE: November 4, 1998 RE: Price Creek Subdivision As per our conversation regarding Price Creek Subdivision, the following concerns establishes the reason for the staff recommendation to accept payment in lieu of land dedication. Having reviewed the concept plan, we determined that the minimum amount of land required for dedication would result in a very narrow strip east of Price Creek and would not adequately accommodate a trail that could adjoin the dedicated lands of Oak Crest Subdivision to the north. Other concerns were that there were only two lots in Orange County and that the trail going south for approximately 250 feet would meet a dead end at the Chatham County line. Also, the land east of Price Creek is very low in elevation and a large flood plain area would require a much greater width to construct even a primitive trail. It has also been pointed out that two parcels of land in the Oak Crest subdivision intended to be deeded to Orange County in 1989 had in fact not been deeded at all and that the lots in question may not have been included in the Joint Planning Area maps showing proposed greenways since the county line has changed. Last night at the November 3 meeting of the Recreation and Parks Advisory Council all information was again reviewed. It was the consensus of the members present that the minimum amount of land required for dedication (1/20 of an acre) of the approximately five acres of the two lots ( 411 and #12) would not be beneficial to the proposed greenway to the north and that trails meandering along streams should be constructed in greenways with a width of 30 -50 feet or more especially in flood plains in order to reach higher elevations and circumvent trees and slopes. Members of the Advisory Council recommended accepting payment in lieu of dedication at 3455 per lot unless more land could be acquired. Please contact me if I can be of further assistance. i T= LF ?HONL5 A.9—Si CODE 919 32 -dlSl 0&7311 's10> _7•ro3t A11GNT: a1 +3010 Z. VC 044 - ?C:_