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<br />.~ <br />MEMORANDUM <br />TO: Orange County Board of Commissioners <br />Chapel Hill Town Council <br />Carrboro Board of Aldermen <br />Orange County Planning Board <br />John Link, County Manager <br />Cal Horton, Chapel Hill Town Manager <br />Robert Morgan, Carrboro Town Manager <br />FROM: Orange County Planning Staff <br />Town of Chapel Hill Planning Staff <br />Town of Carrboro Planning Staff <br />DATE: April 2, 1998 <br />SUBJECT: JPA-1-98, Inna Deng, Proposed Amendment to the <br />Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan <br />Comprehensive Plan Amendment <br />On January 26, 1998, a petition for amendment to the Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan <br />(JPALUP) and Map was submitted by Ms. Inna Deng. The request is to expand the Chapel Hill <br />Transition Area plan category to include two tracts on the north side of Eubanks Road. In <br />accordance with the Joint Planning Agreement and Articles 2 and 20 of the Orange County Zoning <br />Ordinance, the proposed amendment is evaluated on the following pages. <br />BACKGROUND <br />The property proposed for amendment lies in Chapel Hill Township, on the north side of Eubanks <br />Road, west of the Orange Regional Landfill. Specifically, the request involves two pazcels totaling <br />11.7 acres of land, referenced as pazcels 27 (8.08 acres) and 27E (3.62 acres), tax map 18, Chapel <br />Hill Township (7.18..27 and 27E). The parcels are part of a rectangulaz, nine-lot azea currently <br />designated Rural Buffer in the JPALUP, surrounded by Duke Forest to the north and west, the <br />inactive portion of the Orange Regional Landfill to the east, and undeveloped wooded lots to the <br />south. One house currently exists in the azea south of lot 27 on the lot referenced as 27G (please <br />see copy of Chapel Hill Tax Map 18 included with application). <br />The rectangular area described above is bounded to the south and east by Chapel Hill Transition <br />Area, although the two individual pazcels in this request aze not adjacent to the Chapel Hill <br />Transition Area. The proposed amendment would redesignate the two parcels from their current <br />Rural Buffer designation to Chapel Hill Transition Area. Chapel Hill Transition is described in <br />the JPALUP as "areas located adjacent to the urban areas of Chapel Hill and Carrboro. They are <br />in the process of changing from rural to urban uses or are already urban in use; are developed at <br />~Y~ <br />