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~~~ The proposed rezonings for Chapel Hill Township are based on two Land Use Plans - the Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan, adopted in 1986 and the Land Use Plan for that portion of Chapel Hill Township north of the JPA and Rural Suffer adopted in July 1988, The most significant policies of these two. plans as they relate to the proposed rezonings is the reaffirmation of publicly and quasi-publicly owned lands used for public purposes such as recreation, wildlife mitigation, education and research as Public Interest Districts. In order for the Zoning Atlas to conform to the Land Use Plans, the following lands are proposed for Public Interest District zoning: 1) University of North Carolina lands at University Lake and Mason Farm; 2) Army Corp of Engineer lands at the headwaters of Jordan Lake; 3) All divisions of Duke Forest lands in Chapel Hill Township. Several other policies of the Land Use Plans warrant additional zoning changes. The Joint Planning Area identifies two activity nodes in Chapel Hill Township; one at Calvander on Old NC 86 and Blackwood Station on New NC $6. Two commercial properties in the watershed, however, are zoned as if they were in an activity node. The proposed rezoning would change their classification from General Commercial-4 to $xisting Commercial-5, the classification used for commercial property outside of activity nodes. An area south of Davis Road in northern Chapel Hill Township is proposed to change from Agricultural Residential to Rural Residential (R-1). Citizen Comment Max Wallace, Associate Vice-President of Duke University, explained the process which Duke University is pursuing in order to provide recommendations to its Board of Trustees for long-term best uses of University owned lands. He expressed the desire to work with Orange Gounty to provide the comprehensive plan far the Duke Forest properties. He asked that the public hearing be kept open to allow acceptance of additional information from Duke University so that the best possible informed decisions can be made regarding the zoning of what he referred to as private land rather than public or quasi-public lands. He indicated that the time frame would be December l9$8 or February 1989 when recommendations from the university would be complete. He stated that he would publicly commit for Duke University that no development of any kind would be proposed or done during that interim period; thus there would be na risk to the County. Carla Ball, representing the Research Triangle Group of the Sierra