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Exhibit A <br />SECTION VI <br />FUTURE LAND USE - JOINT PLANNING AREA <br />In this section, anticipated patterns of future land development are outlined for the <br />Joint Planning Area, exclusive of Carrboro and Chapel Hill. The future land use patterns <br />described in this section are based, in part, on the population, economic and existing land <br />use trends identified in background studies. Also considered in the formulation of these <br />patterns were environmental features, infrastructure and service concerns, operating <br />principles, locational standards and concept/strategy maps developed for the Joint <br />Planning Area or currently existing in the Orange County Land Use Plan. Finally, <br />comments received at public hearings, public information meetings, and the <br />recommendations of town and county advisory and governing boards were considered in <br />the formulation of the plan. The discussion of the Plan centers on two broad categories of <br />land use - Transition Areas and the Rural Buffer. <br />*TRANSITION AREAS <br />*Amended <br />2/3/92 (effective 2/24/92) <br />Transition areas are located adjacent to the urban areas of Chapel Hill and <br />Carrboro. They are in the process of changing from rural to urban uses or are already <br />urban in use; are developed at or suitable for urban -type densities; and are now provided <br />or are projected to be provided with urban services. <br />- - -- — -- --a- <br />-� ...� -.._,. <br />a . <br />de,,,eleped <br />Y <br />at <br />u <br />densities d fer- <br />:derA <br />uses <br />led <br />the <br />.. de -/. <br />.. lead use <br />1 t <br />described belew. <br />A- <br />TT 1.. <br />.. <br />tFaat be <br />_d r__ <br />meky <br />a <br />a <br />a <br />f., <br />e -` ° + /^7[/\ eft <br />he <br />la d <br />eFTre <br />. <br />, e. T L .- <br />a- --1seventy <br />----� <br />p <br />gr- <br />s menea <br />Ten categories of Transition Area have been depicted on the Joint Planning Area <br />Land Use Plan. These categories include Resource Protection, Public- Private Open <br />Space, New Hope Creek Corridor Open Space; Suburban Residential, Urban Residential, <br />Office - Institutional, Future UNC Development, Retail Trade, Light Industrial, and <br />Disposal Use. These categories are described below. The Facilitated Small Area <br />Plan for Carrboro's Northern Study Area will supersede the Joint Planning <br />Area Land Use Plan in the Carrboro Transition Area to the extent that it <br />differs from the Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan. <br />Resource Protection Areas <br />Resource Protection Areas in Transition Areas have been designated on the Land <br />Use Plan to include flood plains, and wetlands along drainage tributaries and steep slope <br />71 Joint Planning Land Use Plan <br />41 <br />