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34 <br />raw oFFZC~s <br />COLEMAN, GLEDHILL & HARGRAVE <br />A PAOFFSSiONAI, OORPOltA77pr1 <br />129 S. TRYO3~1 S[AFBf <br />P.0. DRAWBA 1329 <br />L10H, NORTH CARaAU 27276 <br />919-732.2196 <br />FAX 919.732.7997 <br />March 30, 1999 <br />Alice M. Gordon, Chair <br />Margaret W. Brown <br />Moses•Carey, Jr. <br />Stephen Halkiotis. <br />•Barry Jacobs <br />Orange County Board. <br />Post Office Box 8181 <br />Hillsborough, North <br />of Comanissioners <br />Carolina 27278 <br />FR01d THB DFXK OF <br />GEOFFREY E. OI.EDHQ I- <br />RE: Implementation of Recommendation of the Small Area <br />Plan for Carrboro~s Northers Study Area - Proposed <br />NSA Ordinance <br />Dear Board Members: <br />I have spent some time studying the.'Ordinance Amending the <br />Carrboro Land Use Ordinance to Implement the Recommendations of <br />the Facilitated Small Area Plan for Carrboro's Northern Study <br />Area, the so-called "NSA ordinance." This ordinance was formally <br />transmitted to Orange County on February 19, 1999. I have also <br />reviewed- the March 16, 1999 Carrboro staff report to the <br />Carrboro Board of Aldermen and the undated Orange County <br />Planning staff comments to you concerning consistency between <br />the NSA ordinance and the amended Joint Planning Area Land .Use <br />Plan. MY first observation is that I think that the Planning <br />staff did an excellent job in highlighting the consistency <br />issues. <br />The second observation that I have is that it is impossible <br />to make '~~Land Use Plan consistency review .with the information <br />transmitted to Orange County on February 19, 1999. This is <br />because the NSA ordinance is structured like. a_ piece of <br />legislation, containing section numbers which are not in <br />themselves part of the Carrboro Land Use Ordinance. Each•section <br />amends one or more of the sections of the Carrboro Land Use <br />Ordinance by reference to the ordinance sections amended. <br />Therefore, without having the Carrboro Land. Use .Ordinance in <br />