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Location The Rogers Road study area is approximately 330 acres. It is bounded by the Nor- folk 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 Landfill to the north. The Rogers Road study area is located in Orange County northwest of the municipal boundary of the Town of Chapel Hill and northeast of the Carrboro Municipal Boundary (Figure 2). It is also located in the Chapel Hill Transition Area, which includes areas planned to become part of the Town of Chapel Hill and within the Town's Urban Service Boundary. The Transi- tion Areas of Chapel Hill and the Town of Carrboro were established with Orange County in 1987 though the Joint Planning Agreement (Figure 1). Almost half of the study area (164 acres) consists of the jointly owned Greene Tract. Approximately 60 acres was deeded exclusively to Orange County pursuant to the 1999 interlocal "Agreement for Solid Waste Management." The remain- ing 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 and is located southeast of the existing Orange County landfill. A concept plan prepared by a Greene Tract Workgroup' was approved by the joint owners in late 2002. This plan identifies that 18.1 acres of the jointly owned por- tion will be developed for housing and the remaining acres of the jointly owned portion will be preserved and managed as open space. The remaining portion of the study area consists of approximately 80 lots and tracts in the historic Rogers Road neighborhood. The properties are primarily ac- cessed via Purefoy Drive off Rogers Road. The Joint Planning Agreement of 1987 In 1984, the Town of Chapel Hill and Orange County entered into a Joint Planning Agreement that called for the development of a Land Use Plan for the areas immediately surrounding Chapel Hill and Carrboro, but located outside the extraterritorial planning jurisdictions of the two towns. These areas outside of each Towns's respective corporate limits and planning jurisdiction were known as Joint Planning "Transition Areas" Initially, the Town of Carrboro was not a party to the Joint Planning Agreement. The staffs and Planning Boards of Chapel Hill and Orange County prepared a Land Use Plan. The Town Carrboro was also updating its Land use Plan and began to participate in the Joint Planning process. A public information meeting was held in November of 1985. The results of this meeting combined with public hearings in January and April of 1986 were merged to produce the Joint Planning Area Land use Plan. The Plan was adopted by the Chapel Hill Town Council and the Orange County Board of Commissioners on October 13, 1986. Following efforts to streamline the review process for developments located in transition areas, the Town of Carrboro joined Chapel Hill and Orange County in adopting a new Joint Planning Agreement on November 2, 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. This boundary 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 within this boundary. 'The Greene Tract Work Group was comprised of elected officials. They met in 2002 to determine the use for the re- maining 109 acres of the of the Greene Tract and to discuss the disposition of the property. The Work Group agreed that the three public purposes of open space, affordable housing, and recreation were the uses to be programmed for these 109 acres.