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~~~ Twenty Year Transition. 5. Agricultural Residential area west of Dimmocks Mill Road ~~- is changed to Rural Residential. 6. The boundaries of Commercial-Industrial Transition are altered to encompass all US 70 road frontage to approximately 4500 feet from junction with NC 86. On the south, the node is pulled back to the Southern Railroad right-of-way in order to avoid adverse impacts on adjacent residential neighborhoods. Although this plan documents high growth for Hi1J.sborough, it does not comment on the desirability of that growth. What the Plan does imply, however, is that the patterns of development since 1981, to the east and south, .rather than the north and west, are most appropriate. There were no public comments. d. Chapel Hill Township Component (North of Joint Planning Area) The staff presentation was made by Brad Tongan. The Plan update process for Chapel Hill township officially began with a public information meeting on January 6, 1988 at which the Plan strategy was presented. The strategy consisted of collecting of data, identifying development trends, seeking community input and creating draft alternative plans. A public meeting was held on February 2, 1988 for the purpose of presenting background data and distributing questionnaires on community preferences. This Land Use Plan covers that portion of Chapel Hill Township not covered by the Joint Planning Agreement between Orange County, Chapel Hill and Carrboro. Because only 9~ of the Chapel Hill Township land area is covered by this Plan, and because of limited involvement on the part of the Chapel .Hill TAC, no TAC recommendation was sought. The text of the Plan is new but follows the same format of the other townships and includes sections such as existing land use, housing stock and development trends that were not a part of the 1981 Township Plans. Population projections indicate that the area will grow at approximately 7~ annually, from 551 people in 1980 to an estimated 3,005 by the year 2005. The policies of orderly rural residential development and protection of existing rural open space are an amalgam of policies in effect for Hillsborough Township, Eno Township and the Joint Planning Area. The Plan map is essentially a status quo plan. Most of the land is classified as rural residential while the Couch Mountain Tract of Duke Forest is coded a Public Interest