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I -~ In answer to a question from a citizen Mr. Williford stated that there are two issues: (1) to amend the Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan--to remove the rural buffer and then to extend the transitional areas and (2) zone that area the designation which all the other transition areas will be currently zoned, which would be RR. In this. case, that would be one unit per acre, so it would be a density change. It would add an additional 67 units on 135 acres, Another zoning classification would need to be created far the watershed. This change would not honor existing lot boundaries whereas the other designations of the Rural Buffer have pretty much honored existing lot boundaries, It's just a set distance, Commissioner Willhoit suggested that this change be delayed until the larger questions of the FID and designation of the Rural Buffer have been decided, Those properties in the Hickory Forest area would be affected by this change. THERE BEING NO FURTHER GOMMENTS THE PUBLIC HEARING WAS CLOSED Chairman Carey stated that concludes all of the Land Use Plan amendment proposal. These will be referred to the Towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro and to the Orange County Planning Board for decision no sooner than June 5. 2. a. Z-3-89 TOWN OF CARRBORO The presentation was made by Roy Williford, In summary this item is to receive citizen comment on a proposed amendment to the Orange County Zoning Atlas which would incorporate a proposed change to the Town of Carrboro's Zoning Map. The proposal would rezone the aforementioned 400-foot buffer area adjacent to Duke Forest from its current Orange County zoning designation of Rural Suffer (RB) to the Carrboro zoning designation Rural Residential (RR). The Rural Residential district represents the zoning classification shown for all properties within the Town of Carrboro Transition Area II as shown on the Joint Planning Land Use Plan and allows one residential unit per acre of land.. THERE WERE NO COMMENTS 2, b. Z-4-89 TOWN OF CHAPEL HILL The presentation was made by Roger Waldon, Planning Director for the Town of Chapel Hill, In summary this item is to receive citizen comment on a proposed amendment to the Orange County Zoning Atlas that would incorporate a proposed change to the Town of Chapel Hill Zoning Map, The proposal would rezone a parcel located in the Chapel Hill Joint Development Area as identified on the Orange County-Ghapel Hill-Carrboro Joint Planning Land Use Flan. The property is currently zoned R-1 Rural Residential by Orange County. Under the terms of the above-referenced Joint Planning Agreement, the property would be assigned a Chapel Hill zoning designation. The Chapel Hill Town Council adapted a resolution calling for this property to be zoned Rural Transition (RT). Chapel Hill's RT district is intended to be applied to land which is used for agriculture, very- low intensity residential, or open space uses, but which is projected in the Comprehensive Plan for conversion to more intensive urban uses at such time as community services are available and community needs for such uses are present, The minimum lot size requirement in the RT district is 100,000 square feet. Chairman Carey emphasized that the zoning of this parcel is not a decision to locate or not locate a landfill on this property. Anything located on this property would have to have permits applied for and granted, and a special use permit applied for with public hearings and ample opportunity for citizen comment, Again, this action is not an action