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#02 <br />r: <br />identifies the Joint Planning Area Land use Plan Categories and substituting the following: <br />JOINT PLANNING AREA LAND USE PLAN CATEGORIES <br />Major Land Use Plan <br />class Subclass Cateaorv <br />Resource Protection <br />Public-Private Open Space <br />Suburban Residential <br />Transition Urban Residential <br />TRANSITION Transition I Office-Institutional <br />Transition II Future UNC Development <br />Retail Trade <br />Light Industrial <br />Disposal Use <br />University Lake Watershed <br />Resource Protection <br />RURAL Public-Private Open Space <br />Rural Buffer Agricultural <br />CONSERVATION Rural Residential <br />Retail Trade <br />Extractive Use <br />(The proposed amendment deletes a category entitled "Water Quality Critical Area" and <br />substitutes "University Lake Watershed Area" in its place.) <br />D. Amend Section V Joint Planning Operating Principles by rewriting the last sentence of <br />the subsection "Rural Buffer and Conservation" to read as follows: <br />The Rural Buffer consists of the following Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan categories: <br />Rural Residential; Agricultural; Public-Private Open Space; Resource Conservation; <br />Extractive Use; and the overlay category designated University Lake Watershed Area. <br />In addition, the subsection "Water Quality Critical Area" is deleted and, in its place, the <br />following new subsection is substituted: <br />UNIVERSITY LAKE WATERSHED AREA <br />The University Lake Watershed Area includes all lands which drain into the University lake <br />reservoir. Based on a preferred watershed protection strategy of land use controls as <br />recommended by Camp; Dresser and McKee in the University Lake Watershed Study, only low- <br />density residential uses are permitted. A minimum lot size of five (5) acres and a maximum <br />density of one (1)-unit per five (5) acres is required for any development. Cluster <br />subdivisions with lot sizes of not less than one (1) acre. are also allowed as well as the <br />creation of a limited number (5) of two-acre lots. <br />E. Amend Section VI Future Land Use - Joint Planning Area by rewriting the first paragraph <br />of the subsection "The Rural Buffer Area" to read as follows: <br />Seven categories of Rural Buffer land use have been depicted on the Land use Plan. These <br />categories include Resource Protection Areas, Public-Private Open Space Areas, Agricultural <br />Areas, Rural Residential Areas, Retail Trade Areas, Extractive Uses, and the overlay