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'PLAN AND MAP <br /> The parties to -this Agreement hereby adopt as the Joint Planning Area Land Use <br /> Plan and M1'.ap so much of the Orange County Land Use Plan and Map as relates <br /> to the Joint Planning Area and designate the following areas which are likely to <br /> be developed at urban densities within a ten and twenty year period: <br /> Joint Planning Area: Ten Year Transition <br /> and <br /> Joint Planning Area: Twenty Year Transition <br /> and the following areas that will remain rural during the twenty year period:. <br /> Joint Planning Area: Rural <br /> -and <br /> Zoint 'Planning Area: University Lake Watershed. <br /> SECTION 2.2 MUTUAL ADOPTION AND APPLICATION OF DEVELOPMENT <br /> STANDARDS. <br /> The parties to this agreement shall adopt the following development standards <br /> and apply them in the Joint' Planning Area. <br /> A. Orange County will adopt and apply development standards in the <br /> Ten and Twenty Year Transition Areas of the Joint Planning Area <br /> which will be those of the respective Towns and those of OWASA. <br /> Carrboro standards will be adopted and applied west of and Chapel <br /> Hill standards will be adopted and applied east of a boundary <br /> within the Joint Planning Area created by the southern Railroad <br /> Line: from its intersection with the northern boundary of the Joint <br /> Planning Area generally south to its intersection with a line running <br /> generally north and south and at all points 250 feet east of and <br /> parallel to Smith Level Road (S.R. 1919). From the point of that <br /> intersection generally south along with the line at all points 250 <br /> feet east of and parallel to Smith Level Road to a point where <br /> that line intersects the Joint Planning Area Boundary on the <br /> southwest. <br /> B. The Towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro will adopt and apply <br /> development standards in the Joint Planning Area outside of their <br /> corporate limits, but within their extraterritorial planning <br /> jurisdictions which meet or exceed Orange County development <br /> standards. <br /> C. Standards for density of development will be adopted in accordance <br /> with the Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan and zoning ordinances <br /> of the Town and County and, unless amended as provided herein, <br /> shall include the following: <br /> L' Within the portion of the Joint Planning Area designated <br /> "Rural" and outside the University Lake Watershed: a minimum <br /> two acre lot size along with performance standards providing <br />