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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: March 4 1998 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item # J _0-Cl <br />SUBJECT: OVERVIEW OF ITEMS PROPOSED FOR APRIL 8,1998 JOINT PLANNING PUBLIC <br />HEARING <br />DEPARTMENT: PUBLIC HEARING: Yes _x—No <br />. BUDGET AMENDMENT REQUIRED: Yes _x —No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: Gene Bell <br />- Inna Deng Application Extension 2589 <br />- Chapel Hill 2/23/98 Status Report <br />- Bill Crowther 11/5/97 Letters to Mayors <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough -732-8181 <br />Durham -688-7331 <br />Mebane -227-2031 <br />Chapel Hill -967-9251 <br />PURPOSE: To inform the Board of items proposed for the Joint Planning Area (JPA) Public Hearing <br />scheduled for April 8, 1998. <br />BACKGROUND: The Joint Planning Agreement requires that Orange County and the Towns of Chapel Hill <br />and Carrboro conduct a Joint Public Hearing when amendments to the JPA Land Use <br />Plan, JPA Land Use Map, or JPA Agreement are proposed. Past practice has been to <br />schedule two JPA hearings per year, one in the spring and the other in the fall. The next <br />JPA public hearing is scheduled for Wednesday, April 8, 1998. <br />number, as well as the complexity of some items proposed for presentation on April <br />8, raises questions in regard to time; specifically, can all items be heard in the allotted <br />time or do special considerations such as starting earlier or having a continuation date <br />need to be considered? There are potentially four JPA Land Use Plan amendments and <br />two Joint Planning Agreement amendments proposed for April 8. Likewise, there is an <br />amendment to the Land Use Element of the Orange County Comprehensive Plan directly <br />related to one of the JPA Plan amendments (American Stone) that could also be presented <br />following the JPA items (this item would not require the participation of Chapel Hill and <br />Carrboro). <br />