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WHEREAS, The steering committee convened two forums with over 100 high school students to <br />discuss the needs of area youth; and <br />WHEREAS, These meetings mark the first time youth from both Northern and Southern Orange County <br />have been together for such a purpose; and <br />WHEREAS, From these discussions, the youth realized that they share similar agendas and issues of <br />concern regardless of their location in the county; and <br />WHEREAS, The youths developed a list of (11) recommendations which they consider to be priorities in <br />addressing their needs; and <br />WHEREAS, The youths want to develop a formal mechanism to ensure continued communications <br />between students in the two school systems, and address these recommendations; and <br />WHEREAS, The youth recommended the formation of a Youth Council for Orange County high school <br />aged youths for the purposes of providing leadership and service to the community; and <br />WHEREAS, In order to establish an effective youth council for Orange County, the youth will require <br />staff support from each governmental agency, as well as assistance from members of the <br />private and non-profit community. <br />NOW, THEREFORE, We, the members of the Orange County Assembly of Governments, do hereby <br />endorse the concept of establishing a Youth Council, and agree to appoint staff <br />representatives to review the feasibility and make recommendations on next <br />steps. <br />This, the 30th day of May, 1996. <br />Moses Carey, Jr.,, Chair Michael R. Nelson, Mayor <br />Orange County Board of Commissioners Town of Carrboro <br />Rosemary Waldorf, Mayor <br />Town of Chapel Hill <br />Horace Johnson, Mayor <br />Town of Hillsborough <br />JOINT PLANNING AGREEMENT - HISTORICAL UPDATE: <br />Gene Bell, Orange County Planner, presented a history of joint planning in Orange County. He <br />mentioned that in the 1950s and 1960s North Carolina State Legislature granted Chapel Hill and Carrboro <br />the right to enact zoning ordinances and regulations for certain designated areas surrounding the Towns. <br />These designated areas are known as extraterritorial planning jurisdictions (ETJ). During the late 1970s <br />and early 1980s urban growth began to occur outside of Chapel Hill's and Carrboro's corporate limits and <br />extraterritorial planning jurisdictions. In particular, growth began to occur north of Chapel Hill's <br />extraterritorial planning jurisdiction (ETJ) boundary; and Orange County had begun to approve <br />developments outside of Chapel Hill's planning jurisdiction that would eventually be annexed into the <br />Town's corporate limits. <br />A philosophy for joint planning emerged as an opportunity to provide Chapel Hill and Carrboro with some <br />planning and zoning control over future growth areas outside of each Town's extraterritorial planning <br />jurisdiction. Joint planning also provided the opportunity for the County to retain some zoning control over <br />these growth areas while also setting a limit for urban sprawl and providing a transition for an urban to a <br />rural environment (the rural buffer). In 1984, the Town of Chapel Hill and Orange County entered into a <br />Joint Planning Agreement that called for the development of a Land Use Plan for the areas immediately <br />surrounding Chapel Hill and Carrboro, but located outside of the extraterritorial planning jurisdictions of the