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K Background The Rogers Road study area is located in Orange County to the north west of the existing town limits of the Town of Chapel Hill; it also adjoins the Town limits of Carrboro to the west. The study area is located in the Chapel Hill Transition Area, an area which is planned to become part of the Town of Chapel Hill. The future growth of the Town of Chapel Hill and the Town of Carrboro was established with Orange County, through a Joint Planning Agreement in 1987. The Town of Chapel Hill Comprehensive Plan, a long range plan for future development of the Town, reflects the Joint Planning Agreement and identifies an Urban Services Boundary which defines the future town limits in which it is intended that the Town will grow and provide typical urban services. The Rogers Road study area is located within the Urban Services Boundary. The study area is approximately 330 acres. It is bounded by the Norfolk and Southern Railroad to the east, the existing residential neighborhood of Billabong Road and Homestead Place to the south, Rogers Road to the west and the Orange County Land fill to the north. Draw an imaginary vertical line through the middle of the study area. East of the line almost half of the study area (164 acres) consists of the Greene Tract. Approximately 60 acres of the Greene Tract is owned by Orange County and 104 acres is jointly owned by Orange County, the Town of Chapel Hill and the Town of Carrboro. The Greene Tract was originally purchased in 1984 as a potential future landfill. It is located south east of the existing Orange County landfill. A concept plan prepared by a Greene Tract Workgroup was approved by the joint owners in late 2002. The concept plan identifies that 18.1 acres of the jointly owned portion will be developed for housing and the remaining acres of the jointly owned portion will be preserved and managed as open space. West of the imaginary line the study area consists of approximately 80 lots and tracts of the Rogers Road Neighborhood. The properties are mostly accessed via Purefoy Drive off Rogers Road. Rogers Road Small Area Plan Task Force Following a community open house in December 2006, the Rogers Road Small Area Plan Task Force was formed and began meeting in February 2007. The Task Force has met six times holding a meeting on the second Thursday in the month. The charge of the Task Force is to take a more detailed look at the impacts of providing public services in the study area, especially the extension of sanitary sewer, and the impacts of developing an affordable housing site on the Greene Tract. The Task Force has been reviewing background information about existing conditions and infrastructure of the study area in order to establish a vision for the future. To date the Task Force has focused on how to improve facilities for existing residents in association with planning for future development of the study area.