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C?3 The Chapel Hill Town Council held a public hearing on the recommended plan on Mazch 1, 1995. On June 26, 1995, the Council reviewed all of the comments received from the Public Hearing and the recommendations from different advisory boazds, and scheduled a work session on August 30, 1995. At the work session on August 30, 1995, the Council and representatives from the Orange County Boazd of Commissioners and the Carrboro Boazd of Aldermen discussed several key issues regarding the Plan. Following this work session, on September 11, 1995, the Council adopted a resolution asking Orange County and Carrboro to hold a joint work session on the Greene Tract and to hold a Joint Planning Public Hearing on October 11, 1995. A Public Hearing was not held on the plan, but instead joint work sessions were held on the Greene Tract and the proposed Northwest Small Area Plan on October 11, 1995. At the conclusion of the Joint Planning work session held on October 11, 1995, Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Orange County elected officials agreed to put the Northwest Small Area Plan on hold for six months until the Landfill Owners Group recommended a new landfill site and then made recommendations on the future use of the Greene Tract. A yeaz later, on September 6, 1996, the Chapel Hill Town Council asked the Landfill Owners Group to make a recommendation on the future use of the Greene Tract by January 1, 1997, in order that the Northwest Small Area Plan could be considered at an April, 1997 Joint Planning Public Hearing. On January 27, 1997, the Town Council received a report from Richazd Frank, Chair of the Landfill Owners Group, concerning its resolution on the Greene Tract. This resolution requested that no action be taken on those parts of the Plan which pertain to the Greene Tract, and that the Council consider options that reflect both the possibility that OC-17 will be used for solid waste activity and the possibility that it will not. The resolution suggested that a task force be formed to study the Greene Tract. No Town Council action was taken on this resolution. No further actions were taken until February 23, 1998, when the Chapel Hill Town Council considered applications for the April 8, 1998, Joint Planning Public Hearing. Noting that the Carrboro Northern Small Area Plan was on the agenda, the Chapel Hill Town Council requested that the Chapel Hill Northwest Small Area Plan also be included on the agenda. In particular, the Town Council noted that the two small azea plans aze interrelated and that it would be desirable for the towns' northern small area planning endeavors to move forward together. The Orange County Board of Commissioners responded by agreeing to include Chapel Hill's Northwest Small Area Plan on the Joint Planning Area Public Hearing meeting agenda. Summary of the Northwest Small Area Plan The Northwest Small Area Plan study azea is generally the land south of Interstate 40, including a portion of the land north of Weaver Dairy Road, the land west of Airport Road (N.C. 86), and the land north of the University of North Cazolina's Horace Williams Tract and Homestead Road. The western boundary of the area generally follows Rogers Road. A rail line bisects the northwest area, and a lazge pazcel of property in the center -of the azea (known as the Greene Tract) is jointly owned by the Town of Chapel Hill, the Town of Carrboro, and Orange County. 2