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Residential Development Low and medium density residential developments are scattered within the Harrisburg planning area and consist almost entirely of single-family detached dwellings. The majority of these dwellings are found in residential subdivisions, the majority of which are located north of Rocky River Road. Density patterns of single-family housing is fairly uniform throughout the planning area. Since the Town incorporated, there have been several significant annexations involving residential subdivisions. The areas annexed include the Orchard Park, Camelot, Clare Haven, Wills Run, River Hills, and Huntwick subdivisions to the south of Town and the Timber Forest subdivision to the north. The Town also annexed two long strips of land to the north, near Lowe's Motor Speedway, on both sides of Morehead Road. This land is primarily-vacant with a few older homes on large lots. Since its annexation, the area has begun to develop industrially. There are only a few duplexes located in the Town of Harrisburg. The lack of duplexes can best be explained by the development of single family residential subdivisions in the Town and zoning restrictions that severely limit the location of duplexes. Aside fzom zoning, a number of the subdivisions contain deed restrictions that prohibit the construction of or conversion of single-family dwellings into two-family and multi-family units. There are some mobile homes located within the corporate limits of Harrisburg. All are located on individual lots as there are no mobile home parks within the Town limits. The only significant concentration of mobile homes in the Town is found north of Highway 49 near the town limits. Six mobile homes are located in this area. A smaller concentration is found off Palricia Avenue in the vicinity of Plaza Drive and Morris Drive. All mobile homes on individual lots are non-conforming with regard to the Town's Zordng Ordinance. Additional mobile homes are found in the southern, more rural, portion of the planning area. Recent Residential Development Most residential zoning within the corporate limits of Harrisburg is either R-15 or R-20. These categories permit lot sizes down to 15,000 and 20,000 square feet respectively. There is also a Planned Development category and the O-A district pernfits townhouses as a special use. Outside of town the County's residential zoning consists ofCR, LDR, and MDR. The CR category or Country- Side Residential district is the county's open space preservation district that requires the clustering of homes and a minimum of 30 percent of a total tract to be preserved as petrcament open space. The LDR and MDR districts pemiit lot sizes of 1 acre and 10,000 square feet respectively. Development on lots of these sizes is generally considered low to medium density and much of the newest development in the Harrisburg area is medium density.