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2 The Interlocal Agreement provides that the County may use 60 acres of the Greene Tract property for solid waste management purposes, including location of solid waste management facilities. Included in the proposed definition of solid waste management facilities are transfer stations and materials recovery facilities (MRF). A transfer station is a facility that receives local waste and then transports the waste to a distant disposal facility. A materials recovery facility receives recyclables collected through local recycling programs and prepares them for marketing. We note that the property that is the subject of this initiative, the Greene Tract, is located outside of Chapel Hill's corporate limits, in the Joint Planning Transition Area. A separate application has been submitted which proposes to rezone land to the new Materials Handling zoning district. The rezoning proposal must go through a separate process that involves a Joint Public Hearing with the Orange County Commissioners. Following such a hearing, both the Chapel Hill Town Council and the Orange County Board of Commissioners, in separate actions, would need to consider the rezoning proposal. If the property is rezoned, an application for a Solid Waste Management Facility could be received and acted upon by the Chapel Hill Town Manager. AMENDMENT TO THE DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE The proposal would amend the Development Ordinance provisions regarding landscape bufferyard provisions for a Solid Waste Management Facility. Following is the language that would effect the proposed landscape bufferyard change to the Chapel Hill Development Ordinance as requested by the County Commissioners: AMEND Article 14 of the Chapel Hill Development Ordinance to read as follows: "A buffer is a strip of land together with the screening required thereon. Except as otherwise specifically provided in this chapter, the type of buffer required between a proposed development and adjacent streets, land uses or zoning designations shall be as specified in Subsection 14.12.6, Schedule of Required Buffers. Where the proposed development site and the adjacent land are both located within either Town Center District, no buffer shall be required. Where the proposed development site is located in the Residential - Special Standards- Conditional zoning district, no buffer shall be required. Where the proposed development site is located in the Materials Handing (MH) zoning district, a 100 2-00 foot Type "E" landscape bufferyard shall be required. between the proposed development and all residential land uses with no landscape bufferyard required between the proposed development and non - residential land uses including railroad corridors." RECOMMENDATIONS Planning Board Recommendation: On February 1, 2000, the Planning Board voted 7 -0 to recommend that the Council adopt Ordinance B, which would change the perimeter buffer requirement to 100 feet with no exceptions. Please refer to the attached Summary of Planning Board Action.