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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: September 30, 1998 1 Action Agenda Item # SUBJECT: JOINT PLANNING AGREEMENT AMENDMENT - TEMPORARY DEVELOPMENT MORATORIA DEPARTMENT: PLANNING ATTACHMENT(S): - Proposed Amendment to Joint Planning Agreement - DRAFT 4 -8 -98 JPA Public Hearing Minutes - 7 -14 -98 Planning Board Minutes PUBLIC HEARING: Yes _x —No INFORMATION CONTACT: Gene Bell TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough - 732 -8181 Durham -688-7331 Mebane -227-2031 Chapel Hill -967-9251 Ext. 2592 PURPOSE: To consider a proposed amendment to the Joint Planning Agreement presented at the April 8, 1998 Joint Planning Area (JPA) Public Hearing. BACKGROUND: From time -to -time a development moratorium is appropriate in order to address exigent circumstances or the results of a study of density designations, plan classifications or other matters prescribed by the adopted Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan, the Joint Planning Area Land Use Map or any of the land use ordinances of the Towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro for their Transition areas and Orange County for the Rural Buffer. Currently, the Joint Planning Agreement does not provide for development moratoria. The need for such a provision in the agreement was highlighted in October, 1997, when Carrboro proposed a moratorium on processing special use and conditional use permit applications in the Northern Study Area pending completion of land use ordinance amendments. Orange County did not object to Carrboro's Land Use Ordinance text amendments establishing a six month moratorium. An extension of this moratorium to September 30, 1998 was proposed in May 1998, and again, Orange County did not object. The proposed amendment to the Joint Planning Agreement would preserve the status quo pending the consideration of a land use ordinance amendment designed to address exigent circumstances or the results of a study. It would allow for adoption of a moratorium of