ATTACHMENT 2

SITE DESCRIPTIONS

Please see map 1 of the sites described below.

New Sites: Sites in this category are proposed to be added to the Plan.

1. Legion Road: This site is located in the Town limits and approximately 35 acres. The property is adjoined by single family residential dwellings to the east, a rest home facility to the west, and Ephesus Elementary School and Ephesus Park to the south. Office and commercial uses are located on the opposite side of Legion Road. The property is designated as Parks and Open Space on the Land Use Plan. Zoning is Residential-2, 4 units per acre. Access is available off Legion Road which is a collector street in the Town’s highway classification, meaning that it provides access between local neighborhood streets and arterial streets.

This site was previously considered as a potential school site during the preparation of the Comprehensive Plan. On January 31, 2000, during a work session on the draft Comprehensive plan the Town Council agreed by consensus to delete a proposed school site in this location.  The reasons cited for the deletion were that accesses to the location, in particular local intersections, were inadequate for this use and that the site should be preserved as open space.

2. Eubanks Road: This site is located in the Town limits and contains approximately 30 acres. It is designated as Mixed Use-Office Emphasis on the Land Use Plan. Zoning is MU-OI-1, mixed use/office institutional. Access is available from Eubanks Road which is a collector street in the Town’s highway classification, meaning that it provides access between local neighborhood streets and arterial streets. The property is within one half mile of an intersection with I-40.

 In 1986 the Town Council denied special use permit application for 120 town houses, citing that the proposed development was premature in advance of the pattern and timing of development envisioned in the Comprehensive Plan and with respect to the provision of public and private facilities being available to serve the proposed development. Improvements to water and sewer services are planned in the area as part of the new Town Operations Center slated for completion by the end of December, 2006.

3. Weaver Dairy Road: This site is located in the Town limits and contains approximately 45 acres. The property consists of two triangular areas of land with a connecting linear strip. On the Land Use Plan the western eastern area is designated as Mixed Use-Office Commercial Emphasis and the eastern area as Medium Density Residential, 4-8 units per acre. The corresponding zoning is MU-OI-1, mixed use/office-institutional and R-3, Medium Density Residential, 7 units per acre. The property abuts I-40 to the north and is within one half mile of an intersection with I-40. Access is available from Weaver Dairy Road which is an arterial street in the Town’s highway classification, meaning that it is a primary transportation facility connecting major centers of activity in the town. The property is presently wooded. To the west is a wooded tract, to the south an office park and to the east multifamily dwellings.

4. Weaver Dairy Road:  This site is located in the Town limits and contains approximately 12 acres. The property is designated as Mixed Use-Office Commercial Emphasis on the Land Use Plan. Zoning is MU-R-1, mixed use, low density residential. The property abuts I-40 to the north and is within one half mile of an intersection with I-40. Access is available from Weaver Dairy Road which is an arterial street in the Town’s highway classification, meaning that it is a primary transportation facility connecting major centers of activity in the town. The property is presently wooded. To the south and west is the Chapel Hill North Shopping Center, to the east a wooded tract.

5. Horace Williams Tract: This site is located in the Town limits and contains approximately 900 acres. The property is designated as University on the Land Use Plan. Zoning is part OI-2 and part OI-3, Office and Institutional and part R-2, Residential 2, 4 units per acre. The property has access available off Airport Road NC86 (arterial), Estes Drive (arterial), Seawell School Road (collector) and Homestead Road (arterial). The property is adjoined by residential neighborhoods to the north, east and southwest, and by office uses to the southeast. Chapel Hill High School, Smith Middle School and Seawell Elementary School are located to the northeast.

The report “Principles, Goals and Strategy for the Horace Williams Property” accepted by the Town Council on March 22, 2004 includes a recommendation for the reservation of school sites on this property:

“Goal 1E: Reserve School Sites at Carolina North and secure financial commitment from the University to build schools needed to meet the additional demand for pre kindergarten through high school as a result of this development”.

Potential Sites Already Designated on the Land Use Plan: Sites in this category are already on the Land Use Plan, but are proposed for broadened review under the new broadened legal authority.

6. US 15-501 South: This site is located outside of the Town limits, but inside the Town’s Urban Services Boundary and contains approximately 89 acres. The property is designated on the Land Use Plan as Low Residential, 1 unit per acre. Zoning is R-LD1, Residential Low Density, 1 unit per acre.  Access is available off US 15-501 South. To the west across 15-501 is Dogwood Acres, to the north, south and east the property is adjoined by sporadically developed single family dwellings on large lots.

On May 10, 2004 the Town Council received and referred a petition Eric Chupp for Kovens Construction Company which makes a request for Formation of a Mayor’s Committee to Provide Guidance in the Planning and Design of land in the Urban Services Boundary. The site is included in this area.

7. Eubanks Rd: This site is located outside of the Town limits, but inside the town’s Urban Services Boundary and contains approximately 20 acres. The property is designated as Medium Density Residential, 4-8 units per acre. The corresponding zoning is R-2, Residential 2, 4 units per acre. The property is also located in the Chapel Hill Transition Area of the Joint Planning Orange County - Chapel Hill - Carrboro Land Use Plan. Access is available off Eubanks Road. To the north are the UPS building and the Town’s Park and Ride Lot, to the east the Northwood subdivision and to the south the Larkspur subdivision.

In May 2003, a conditional use rezoning application was submitted to the Town Council for this and 2 adjoining parcels of land.  The applicant requested rezoning the property from Residential-1 (R-1), Residential-2 (R-2), and Mixed-Use Office/Institutional-1 (MU OI-1) to the Residential-5-Conditional (R-5-C) zoning district. An application was also submitted a Special Use Permit for a Planned Development to allow construction of a multi-family residential development on 35 acres. The proposed development would consist of 19 buildings, including 13 apartment buildings with a total of 282 dwelling units, as well as 6 accessory buildings.

A petition for voluntary annexation was also received. On August 25, 2003 the Town Council considered the annexation petition and declined to receive it on the basis that annexation of this property was detrimental to the Town’s greater control over the timing of growth and the shaping of its corporate limits.

On October 15, 2003 a joint planning hearing was held for the rezoning application. The Planning staffs of Chapel Hill and Orange County recommended denial of the proposed amendment to the Joint Planning Area Zoning Atlas because they believed that the requested rezoning was not consistent with the medium density designation of the Land Use Plan. The application was referred to the Chapel Hill Town Council and then to the Orange County Planning Board for a recommendation to the County Commissioners. Since the joint planning hearing the applicants have not indicated when they intend to submit a revised.

Sites to be Released by Board of Education: Sites listed below are proposed to be taken off the Town’s Land Use Plan.

8. Eubanks Road:  The property is also located in the Chapel Hill Transition Area of the Joint Planning Orange County - Chapel Hill - Carrboro Land Use Plan. Since the adoption of the Comprehensive Plan in May, 2000, the Town has been approved the development of the Larkspur II subdivision on this property which is under construction.

9. Erwin Road: Since the adoption of the Comprehensive Plan in May, 2000 this property was purchased by the Town of Chapel Hill for open space preservation.