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Alice M. Condon, Chair Stephen H. Hamotis, Vice Chair Margaret W. Brown Moses Carty, Jr. Barry Jacobs Orange County Commissioners P. O. Box 8181 200 S Cameron Street Hillsborough, NC 2 72 78 April 29, 1999 The Honorable Glendel Stephenson Mayor, City of Mebane 106 E. Washington Street Mebane, NC 27302 Dear Mayor Stephenson: i 6 r� � We appreciate your April 20 letter responding to the desirability of joint planning between the City of Mebane and Orange County. We agree with your perspective that a successful outcome for joint planning requires our mutual effort to understand and address each other's interests and challenges in a constructive, cohesive process. Consistent with that perspective, we are advising the Orange County legislative delegation that the Orange County Board of Commissioners would respectfully request that any local legislation placing a moratorium on annexation by Mebane into Orange County be withdrawn. Rather, we would propose that we mutually pursue the adoption of a joint planning agreement. We are very appreciative of your willingness to pursue joint planning and can state right now that we would like to accept the proposal in your April 20 letter that Mebane will not enter into any additional satellite annexations affecting Orange County without the written consent of the Orange County Commissioners. You indicated that it was your belief that your Council would approve this action, and we believe such an action would be mutually beneficial. We would like to propose that the next steps in our joint planning process, consistent with our recent correspondence should be as follows: 1. That the Mayor and Council of the City of Mebane and the Orange County Board of Commissioners would sign a Resolution of Intent to Pursue Joint Planning that would articulate the principles of joint planning to be followed by both jurisdictions. (a) As examples, this resolution could include the following elements: • a process for satellite annexations as indicated above; • a process for contiguous annexations, to be discussed; You Count In Orange County AREA CODE (919) 732 -8181: 968 -4501: 688 -7331: 227 -2031: FAX (919) 644 -3004 Ext. 2130