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..cam, -.�v «« v�� ,vw.+ uC I.dYYaOY -CJ fly `3-t'�23 7737 P.03 Staff Report for Final Decision —JPA Amendments Page Z JPA # Initiated By Subject Staff Recommendation Amend Ioint Planning Agreement to delete reference to T -I and T -2 and provide a process to approve a floating conditional use district. 3 -98 Town of Amendment to JPA Land Use Plan and Map to Approval Chapel Hill incorporate the Chapel Hill Northwest Area plan. 1 -98 Irma Deng Amendment to JPA Land Use Plan and Map to Approval Johnson expand Chapel Hill Transition Area to include nine tracts located in Rural Buffer. The staff recommendations for items JPA 1 -98 and JPA 3 -98 remain as noted in the table above. Four letters have been submitted to the town regarding JPA -2 -98 and JPA 1 -98. Copies of those letters are attached. During the public hearing on April 8, a number of citizens provided comments regarding JPA 2 -98, plan and agreement amendments pertaining to the adoption of the Facilitated Small Area Plan for Carrboro's Northern Study Area. Where illustrative or appropriate, the comments or questions, staff response, and any proposed changes to the text of the draft plan are presented in the following table. A number enclosed within parentheses following any comment/question indicates that the comment was made by that number of speakers. Table 2. Summary of comments, responses, and/or staff- recommended # Comments/ Questions Staff - proposed chance and/or Response 1. for approval concurrently with plan.(3) Z A reference to connector roads, which had been eliminated by the steering committee, remains on page 78 of the plan. 3. How close to 75 percent threshold is Transition Area 1? (2) No change. On August 19, 1997, the board voted to submit plan to ordinance drafting committee to prepare land use ordinance text and map amendments needed to implement the plan, which along with the plan, would be referred at a later date, to the Joint Planning Amendment Process as a package. Following a worksession on January 20, 1998, at which the progress of the committee was reviewed and a revised schedule considered, the Board of Alderman voted to submit the Joint Planning Land Use Plan and agreement amendments for review at the April 8 public hearing. This reference will be removed. See attached maps and item 9 below. 4 No mention at facilitated meeting The Transition Areas are defined in Section V of the Joint Planning Land that proposed plan abrogates Use Plan as "suitable for urban-type densities." The Facilitated Plan model of Transition Areas i and 11. proposes to cluster a bulk of the new residential development by (2) encouraging village -scale development, and to conserve natural and environmentally sensitive areas. A "conditional use floating zone' is proposed as the mechanism by which village scale development will occur. The requirement that proposed sites be served by water and sewer coincides with the orderly growth objectives that necessitated the designation of two Transition Areas in the Joint Planning Land use Plan. 5 Plan was prepared by Facilitation The plan incorporates the work of the original Small Area Planning Work Steering Committee. (2) Group, Randall Arendt, the participants in the facilitated workshop, and the Steering Committee. b Consensus was not reached on Consensus was not reached on this item at the facilitated work group 27