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23 <br />MARCH 20, 1999 REPORT <br />Orange County Planning Staff Comments <br />CONSISTENCY <br />Between the Facilitated SmaII Area for Carrboro'a Northern Study Area and <br />Proposed Amendments to' the Carrboro Land IIse Ordinance <br />Section 2.6C of the Joint Planning Agreement requures that (w)henever Chapel <br />hill proposes to amend the tort of its Land Development Ordinance,'and whenever <br />Carrborn proposes to amend the tart of its Land Use Orduemice, the respecti ve towns <br />shall deliver a copy of flee frill text of the pr~vposed amendrneiet to Orange county not <br />later than thirty (30) days before the date of the pub&c hearing on any such <br />amendment The agreement further states that (u)nless Orange County files with the <br />respective towns a writtae objection on or before the date of the public teeming on the <br />Proposed ordnance amendrr~ent, then adoption of the amendment by the respective <br />town shall autoneatically ef,~ed a corresponding amendment to the applicable <br />ordnance adopted by reference by Orange County as provided in Sect:'on Z1 G Arty <br />such objection shall be based on a won by Orange County that the proposed <br />amendment is incoirsistent with the adopted Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan. <br />Proposed amendments to the Carrboro Land Use Ordinance (hereafter referred to <br />as the NSA Ordinance) to implement the recommmdatioa of the Facilitated Small Area <br />Play for Carrboro's Northern Study Area were received is the specified t~meframe. The <br />.amendments consist of 29 revisions or additions to the existing ordinance comprising 35 <br />pages; some revisions are contained in one sentmce whereas others are multiple pages in <br />length, Additional attachments include vernacular architecon~al standards with <br />photographs and illustrations. <br />The approach to analyzing confon~ity of the 29 revisions with the adopted small <br />area Plan at this stage is brief The title or content of each section is listed below with a <br />brief assessment of its consistency or inconsistency with the adopted plan. The primary <br />intent is to identify areas needing further investigation. . ~. <br />Section 1. T Ste arhicle and section re,~iererrces core~ited in thfs o~rdirumce are to the <br />Carrboro Irnu~,l7se Gam. <br />Consistent '' Tnconsisteat _,_,Not Addressed ~ Not Applicable X <br />Comments: <br />Section 2. Residelaticl d'enslty of major' developments in certain districts <br />Consistent X Inconsistent _____Not Addressed Not Applicable <br />Comments: Formula for determining constrained leads needs to be same~in plan and <br />ordinance. <br />