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threatened by the extension of urban densities into it either by annexatiori~ by Carrboro or Chapel Hill or by extension of public water and sewer lines. However, this area continues to be attractive to growth. The proposal is that both communities agree to protect the rural buffer and not to annex ~_nto it voluntarily or involuntarily, and carry out a rural buffer study to •.ook at the standards for maintenance such as a water and sewer extension policy and the acquisition of conservation easements. The alternative to ghat is to use present county zoning and planning standards to guide future use of the rural buffer and to allow urban annexations to occur. Before we can be concerned where the line should be drawn between Carrboro and Chapel Hill regarding review of future development, the proposal is that joint courtesy review be established in the northern rural buffer area west of Interstate 40 in a strip about 4000 feet wide to the line used on the joint agreement map. Carrboro and chapel Hill would share this area in terms of joint courtesy review to the County. The alternative would be that Chapel Hill alone would review and comment to the County who holds final authority. zssue number five is: should the individual local governments or should the orange Water and Sewer Authority decide future growth patterns or should this be done in the joint fashion. The proposal is to use a joint planning committee to work out future plans and review the role of OWASA in the process. The ,alternative would be continued use of individual approaches. Issue number six is: should the proposed cluster development called Amberly be approved and annexed by Carrboro even though it lies within the University Lake watershed. We did not come to an agreement on this. W.e agreed to disagree perhaps and felt that Carrboro should continue to review the project which is already in the application process. Orange County and ..Chapel Hill may not necessarily support this construction. The alternative .o that would be that Carrboro and Orange County could defer action on ~mberly and all other development proposals in the water supply watersheds '~`'antil the capacity study is complete. Everyone has had the opportunity to pick up this one sheet flyer as well as an agenda for the meeting. The one sheet flyer has the 13 points of our agreement on the back. Item number seven includes the public hearing items which are printed in all capital letters and a map of the area of concern is printed on the back side. We realize that these are complicated issues. It is hard even for experts to keep track of all of these things. we have tried to bring them together on this one sheet so that you would have a copy of something you could refer to during the hearing. If you will look at the map on this sheet, you will see that west of Carrboro next to University Lake is the extraterritorial jurisdiction of Carrboro which extends out part way into the watershed. Orange County maintains the rest of that jurisdiction of the watershed. You will see north of Carrboro an area that is in diagonal stripes which are slanted from the upper right to the lower left. This is the transition area proposed now under the joint planning agreement and then a dotted line further north up toward Duke Forest which is where that is supposed to be extended further into the Bolin Creek basin in order to give Carrboro extra growth. There are also two straight dashed lines across that area. The lower one is just under Homestead Road and would be the extraterritorial jurisdiction line for Carrboro on an equivalency basis, i.e., the same number of dwelling units ghat could be built under the present capacity of the University Lake watershed would be built in the extraterritorial jurisdiction. The next 3otted line north would be the extension on an acre per acre basis. Those are the alternatives. I think we will get further into them tonight. 2 realize that this is a fairly complicated matter, but we have tried to work