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-, fine tuning and Carrboro recognized that. She asked support from the elected officials and support of Joint Planning in moving ahead with their effort to fine tune the Land Use~~~~~'; Plan. In answer to a question, Carol Zinn stated that if lot 28 is separated from lot 27, than it would be mostly in Orange County with some of it in Durham County-Durham City. The school district is Durham. In. answer to another question, Carol Zinn stated that the tax map shows a much smaller portion of this lot was in Orange County. It didn't look like any problem at all. When it was finally surveyed they found out that it was larger. They were told initially by the Planning Staff and Orange County that it was an administrative matter. They went through the whole approval process with Durham City believing that and then right near the end found out that it was a larger problem than they anticipated. The question of this becoming a noncomforming lot if approved was addressed by Marvin Collins. He stated that there are two different definitions of a lot within the County's zoning ozdinance. One is called a zoning lot which would be that portion of lot 27 that is in Orange County. It would be a zoning lot zoned rural buffer and from that standpoint would be noncomforming. By looking at it from the Durham County side, they do have a buildable portion in Durham County and they could build there and not have. any conflict whatsoever with the Orange County rural buffer provisions. CATI~Y KLING spoke in support of keeping the rural buffer. She stated that she believes that the people who border this Montvale development would appreciate that extra ~~ space as open space and she thinks the citizens will be back and back again to defend the rural buffer as it slowly gets nibbled away. `'? .TEF spoke in support of this fine tuning because it shows that the plan itself is ''_~_ flexible enough to be used by the people who own the land. If there are more of these lots that are straddling the jurisdictions all around Orange County each one will need to ~, be considered individually. There is not a formula for addressing these questions. This is a real valid use of time to not only amend the plan but to show the flexibility in all of the jurisdictions as they grow. There will not be a zoning designation which is a dinosaur. The rural buffer will be nibbled away slowly and that's what it was designed for. Eventually Orange County is going to grow in all directions including through the rural buffer. That was in the plan when everyone labored over it for many years. THERE BEING NO FURTHER COMMENTS THE PUBLIC HEARING WAS CLDSED 1. c. LUP-d-89 TOWN OF CARRBORO Tha presentation was made by Ray Williford, Planning Airector for the Town of Carrboro. In summary this item is to receive citizen comment on the proposal which would redesignate the buffer area from its current Rural Buffer classification to Carrboro Transition Area II. The designation would allow residential densities at one dwelling unit per acre, .whereas the existing Rural Suffer density allows one unit per two acres. The change is proposed to eliminate administrative difficulties for properties split by the buffer area. He explained that the term Rural Buffer .would be the area which surrounds Duke Forest. Duke Forest is within the Rural Buffer so it's the southern edge of the Rural Buffer. The primary reason for this request is not for the elimination of the Rural Buffer pez se, but the Rural Buffer is creating a jurisdictional boundary which surrounds existing lots all along the boundary of Duke Forest. In order to remedy that situation Carrboro is requesting that the Rural Buffer be removed and that many of the features along Duke Forest be, such as the set back, retained.