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<br />~~ <br />Chair Shirley E. Marshall read the public charge. <br />D. PUBLIC HEARING <br />1. Joint P_lan_n_in~ Land Use Plan <br />Marvin Collins presented the following proposed amendments to the Joint <br />Planning Area Land Use Plan. He used slides and maps to show all the areas <br />which he described. <br />a. Description of Transition Areas I and II and the Rural <br />Buffer <br />On May 4, 1987, the Board of Commissioners approved the extension of the <br />Transition Area into the full extent of Bolin Creek basin north of <br />Carrboro except in Duke Forest and for those properties abutting Duke <br />Forest. The Board also established two designations of Transition Area - <br />Transition I and II - in the Carrboro Joint Development Review Area and <br />directed that boundary designations for Transition Area and Rural Suffer <br />borders be described in the Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan text and <br />delineated on the Land Use Plan map. <br />The portion of the Transition Area located north of Carrboro was divided <br />into Transition Area I and Transition Area II. Within Transition Area <br />II, na tract could be approved for development at a density that exceeded <br />one (1) housing unit per gross acre until at least seventy-five percent <br />(75~) of the gross land area of Transition Area T consisted of any <br />_ combination of the following: <br />1. Lots containing one (1) acre or less; <br />2. Residential developments approved for development <br />at a density of at least one (1) unit per acre; <br />3. Streets, roads, and utility easements lacated <br />outside of lots containing one (1) acre or less; <br />4. Lots or tracts that are used for commercial, industrial, <br />institutional, or governmental purposes; and, <br />5. Tracts that are owned by the University of North Carolina or other <br />non-Profit entities and that are not available for development. <br />The Rural Buffer was defined in the Joint Planning Agreement as being a <br />low-density area consisting of single-family homes situated on large lots <br />having a minimum size of two (2) acres. The Rural Suffer was further <br />defined as land which, although adjacent to an Urban or Transition Area, <br />was rural in character and which would remain rural, contain low-density <br />residential uses, and not require urban services (public utilities and <br />other Town services). The Rural Buffer consisted of the following Joint <br />Planning Area Land Use Plan categories: Rural Residential; Agricultural, <br />Extractive/Disposal Use; and the overlay district designated Water <br />Quality Critical Area. <br />Amendments have been prepared which describe the Transition Areas and <br />Rural Buffet in the Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan text and delineate <br />them on the Land Use Plan map. The amendments have been based on the <br />definitions contained in the Joint Planning Agreement to provide <br />