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Agenda #2 MEMORANDUM TO: Mayor and Town Council FROM: W. Calvin Horton, Town Manager SUBJECT: Public Hearing: Development Ordinance Text Amendment — Materials Handling District Bufferyard DATE: February 21, 2000 INTRODUCTION This Public Hearing has been scheduled for the Town Council to consider a proposed Development Ordinance text amendment. The proposal would change the landscape bufferyard provision of the recently created Materials Handling zoning district. The Orange County Commissioners have requested that the Town Council revisit this buffer requirement, and ask that the requirement be changed (please see the attached letter). The Town Council and the Orange County Commissioners have also scheduled a Joint Public Hearing for tonight to consider a rezoning proposal that would apply the recently created Materials Handling zoning district to the Greene Tract. BACKGROUND On November 8, 1999, the Town Council adopted a Development Ordinance text amendment which: • added a definition for a new land use called a a Solid Waste Management Facility; • established a new Materials Handling zoning district and associated land use regulations; and • amended the provisions of the Development Ordinance regarding the location and process for approval of such a facility. The text amendment was related to the transfer of responsibility and ownership of the Greene Tract described in the recently executed Interlocal Agreement. The Chapel Hill Town Council, along with the Carrboro Board of Aldermen and the Orange County Board of Commissioners, has approved and executed an Interlocal Agreement for management of solid waste. The Interlocal Agreement describes the transfer of responsibility for and ownership of solid waste management functions to Orange County. The Greene Tract is a 169 acre landfill asset. Final negotiations concluded that the Greene Tract will be divided into two parcels. A sixty acre parcel is to be deeded to Orange County, after execution of the new Interlocal Agreement. The remaining approximate 109 acres is to be maintained under joint ownership until its future status is resolved.