LEGISLATIVE RESEARCH CENTER
File #: 17-2254    Version: 1
Type: Agenda Item Status: Passed
File created: 6/30/2017 In control: Planning
On agenda: 7/17/2017 Final action: 7/17/2017
Title: Vote on a request to approve Lewis Metty Development, Inc. for subdivision Revised Preliminary Plat and Final Plat review and approval of Cedar Mountain, Phase 3B, consisting of 3 lots on 6.099 acres, located off Jones Ferry Road, S. R. 1540 and Cedar Grove/Cedar Mountain Road, Baldwin Township, parcel #1721.
Attachments: 1. More Information from Planning Department Website
TITLE
Vote on a request to approve Lewis Metty Development, Inc. for subdivision Revised Preliminary Plat and Final Plat review and approval of Cedar Mountain, Phase 3B, consisting of 3 lots on 6.099 acres, located off Jones Ferry Road, S. R. 1540 and Cedar Grove/Cedar Mountain Road, Baldwin Township, parcel #1721.

ABSTRACT

Action Requested:
Request by Lewis Metty Development, Inc. for subdivision Revised Preliminary Plat and Final Plat review and approval of Cedar Mountain, Phase 3B, consisting of 3 lots on 6.099 acres, located off Jones Ferry Road, S. R. 1540 and Cedar Grove/Cedar Mountain Road, Baldwin Township, parcel #1721.

Introduction & Background:
Zoning: R-1
Watershed: WSIV-PA / JLBA
Water Source: private on-site wells
Septic: private on-site and off-site septic systems and repair areas
Roadways: public, NCDOT state maintained roads.
Cedar Mountain, Phase 3 is reviewed under the pre-2008 Subdivision Regulations and the riparian buffer requirements of the 1994 Watershed Protection Ordinance. The project, consisting of 65 lots, received sketch design approval from the Board of County Commissioners on July 17, 2006. To date, 50 lots have received final plat approval including Phase 3A, consisting of 16 lots which received final plat approval by the Board of Commissioners on 2/20/17.
There were two conditions of sketch design approval:
1. The emergency access easement be widened to a minimum of 50 feet and be labeled as "50 foot wide dedication of public right-of-way and emergency vehicle access".
2. The emergency vehicle access shall be constructed to a minimum standard of a 16 foot wide, all weather travel surface. A note shall be placed on the preliminary and final plat detailing the standards to which said access is constructed and future upkeep and maintenance responsibilities.
The preliminary plat submitted in 2007 included the required 50 foot wide dedication of public right-of-way and emergency vehicle access. The Preliminary Plat was appr...

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