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003 <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />CHAPEL HILL TOWN COUNCIL <br />CARRBORO BOARD OF ALDERMEN <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: April 8,1998 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item # 1. a <br />SUBJECT: AMENDMENT TO THE JOINT PLANNING AGREEMENT TO ALLOW FOR <br />ADOPTION OF DEVELOPMENT MORATORIA <br />DEPARTMENT: PLANNING PUBLIC HEARING: x Yes No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: Gene Bell <br />- Proposed Amendment to Joint Planning Agreement Ext. 2589 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough - 732-8181 <br />Durham - 688-7331 <br />Mebane - 227-2031 <br />Chapel Hill - 967-9251 <br />PURPOSE: To receive public comment on a proposed amendment to the Joint Planning Agreement. <br />BACKGROUND: From time-to-time a development moratorium is appropriate in order to address exigent <br />circumstances or the results of a study of density designations, plan classifications or <br />other matters prescribed by the adopted Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan, the Joint <br />Planning Area Land Use Map or any of the land use ordinances of the Towns of Chapel <br />Hill and Carrboro for their Transition areas and Orange County for the Rural Buffer. <br />Currently, the Joint Planning Agreement does not provide for development moratoria. <br />The need for such a provision in the agreement was highlighted in October, 1997, <br />when Carrboro proposed a moratorium on processing special use and conditional use <br />permit applications in the Northern Study Area pending completion of land use <br />ordinance amendments. Orange County did not object to Carrboro's Land Use <br />Ordinance text amendments establishing a six month moratorium. <br />The proposed amendment to the Joint Planning Agreement would preserve the status quo <br />pending the consideration of a land use ordinance amendment designed to address exigent <br />circumstances or the results of a study. It would allow for adoption of a moratorium of <br />no more than six months that could be extended one time for no more than six months. <br />RECOMMENDATION: The Orange County, Chapel Hill, and Carrboro Planning Staffs recommend <br />approval of the proposed amendment to the Joint Planning Agreement. <br />