Chatham County, NC - File #: 24-5737

• File #: 24-5737
• Version: 1
• Type: Agenda Item
• Status: Approval of Agenda and Consent Agenda
• File created: 12/27/2024
• In control: Planning
• On agenda: 1/21/2025
• Title: Vote to approve a request by Van Finch on behalf of Fitch Creations, Inc for subdivision Sketch Plan Revision and Preliminary Plat review of Section X, Area "G" Guilford, consisting of 13 lots on 3.71 acres, located off Millcroft, (SR-1817), parcel 18998
• Indexes: Comp Plan Goal 10: Foster a healthy community., Comp Plan Goal 3: Promote a compact growth pattern by developing in and near existing towns, communities, and in designated, well planned, walkable, mixed use centers., Comp Plan Goal 4: Diversify the tax base and generate more high-quality, in-county jobs to reduce dependence on residential property taxes, create economic opportunity and reduce out-commuting.

Title
Vote to approve a request by Van Finch on behalf of Fitch Creations, Inc for subdivision Sketch Plan Revision and Preliminary Plat review of Section X, Area "G" Guilford, consisting of 13 lots on 3.71 acres, located off Millcroft, (SR-1817), parcel 18998

Abstract
Introduction & Background:
Zoning: Conditional Use Permit for Planned Unit Development (PUD)
Water: Public water Chatham County
Sewer: Private Wastewater Treatment Plant
Watershed District: WSIV-PA
Within 100-year flood: No

Fearrington Village was approved in 1976 as a Planned Unit Development with a master plan allowing mixed uses such as a Village Center for commercial uses, 1333 dwellings units (including detached single-family homes and attached townhomes), open space and utilities. The master plan has been modified over the years to meet market demands, plus additional land was added to the PUD in 1981 and 1991. In 1999 Galloway Ridge, a continuing care community, was approved. Fearrington Village now includes approximately 956 acres and 1602 units (including the Galloway Ridge units). Three sections of Fearrington, Fearrington Woods, approved in 1989, Whitaker Ridge, approved in 2003, and Henderson Place, approved in 2014 are not part of the PUD. There are 67 lots remaining to be final platted of the 1602 originally allowed.

Fearrington PUD is reviewed under the pre-2008 Subdivision Regulations and the 1994 Watershed Ordinance and is exempt from the Chatham County Stormwater Ordinance but is not exempt from the Jordan Lake Buffer requirements. The project is subject to the Chatham County Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control Ordinance. In 2010, the Board of County Commissioners granted approval of a sketch design revision to a 1999 PUD plan which included all the remaining undeveloped land within the PUD and included Section X. In 2012 another sketch plan revision was approved for Section X. In 2016, the PUD was revised to add "Tyrell" street off Richmond, and to relocate six (6) ...