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Mr. John M. Link, Jr. <br />Page 2 <br />May S, 1998 <br />agreement (cost sharing and otherwise) that make Orange County's <br />ordinances applicable within the Town limits. For example, the <br />Orange County Civil Rights Ordinance is applicable within the <br />Town of Hillsborough (and within the Towns of Carrboro and Chapel <br />Hill) and the Orange County Erosion Control Ordinance is <br />applicable within the Town of Hillsborough (and within the Towns <br />of Carrboro and Mebane and the City of Durham). <br />I have searched the records available at the office of the <br />Clerk to the Board, the Planning Department and my files and can <br />find presently that there are only several instances where County <br />ordinances are in effect in the planning jurisdiction of or in <br />the Town of Hillsborough. Orange County issues building permits <br />within Hillsborough's planning jurisdiction. It collects the <br />fees for the permits it issues and does building code inspections <br />related to those permits. However, the County and Hillsborough <br />have no agreement with respect to enforcement of the building <br />code. Orange County does no enforcement of State Building Code <br />violations within the Hillsborough planning jurisdiction. Orange <br />County issues erosion control permits within the Town's planning <br />jurisdiction. As with building code work, the County receives <br />any fees associated with the erosion control permitting and <br />project inspection process. However, unlike the building code, <br />there is an agreement between the Town and the County for the <br />County to do erosion control enforcement. The agreement with <br />respect to erosion control does not provide for the Town to share <br />the County's cost of enforcement beyond the permit fees collected <br />by the County. <br />With respect to County folks referring citizens to the Town <br />for non - planning ordinance complaints within the Town's ETJ, I <br />can only surmise what is happening. The County Planning <br />Department, the Animal Control Department and the Solid Waste <br />Department know the boundary of their respective ordinances. The <br />County's zoning enforcement program is, relatively speaking, a <br />rigorous one. A complaint of accumulation of material on <br />property located within the County's planning jurisdiction, in. <br />some instances, may be handled by the County Zoning Enforcement <br />Officer as a zoning violation. if the County Zoning Enforcement <br />Officer is confronted with a complaint about the accumulation of <br />material on property located within the extraterritorial <br />jurisdiction of any of the towns, which complaint would cause him <br />to investigate if the property were located in the County's <br />planning jurisdiction, he would logically refer those complaints <br />to the towns. The County's Solid Waste Ordinance is in effect <br />everywhere outside Town limits. I am told by the Solid Waste <br />staff that they are responding to all complaints outside of the <br />Town limits. Dead animals and animal "infestations" are not <br />likely to be Animal Control Ordinance problems. However, the <br />