Overlay District: 100' Thoroughfare Corridor Buffer District

Town Limits: Inside

Land Use Compliance: Excluding a proposal to not install sidewalk along the proposed drive and to reduce the 100' Thoroughfare Corridor Buffer District to 30', the plan complies with all other zoning requirements.

Based on the number of proposed units, the applicant advises that vehicular traffic in the development would be minimal, limited to local traffic, and proposes to utilize the common access drive for pedestrian use, as well. A turf pedestrian trail would extend from the end of the private drive into the adjoining golf course area. Staff supports the request to eliminate sidewalk along the common access drive for the reasons mentioned above.

The plan proposes to reduce the southern 100' Thoroughfare Corridor Buffer District to 30' by utilizing an existing change in grade to meet the Thoroughfare Corridor Buffer regulations. The plan also proposes that evergreen landscape screening material be installed along the length of a continuous brick wall varying in height from 6' to 8'. The combination of grade change, the brick wall, and the evergreen screening material should provide adequate visual screen and noise separation from US Highway 64. The proposed reduction is also consistent with all other development plans previously approved along US Highway 64 where a reduction of the 100' Thoroughfare Corridor Buffer was allowed to either 30' or 35'.

• Be advised that the Projected Number of Additional Students is only a rough approximation.

Staff has received for this development a Certificate of Adequate Facilities for Schools from the Wake County School System. The Certificate indicates that adequate seating would be available at designated schools at the time of occupancy. Actual school locations would be announced.