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statute gives the City this authority. If a company wanted to come into the joint planning areas, these issues would need to be drafted out for the elected officials to approve. Tim Bradley said that when a company builds and taps into their sewer, then the city would need to bring this land into the city. He said that this is great and exciting, but he wants a process in place when the time comes. Frank Clifton said that he and Robert Wilson have talked, and the original agreement between the entities worked for smaller term plans, but for a greater area, they will need to work out an agreement. The State has changed some annexation laws, but this will have to be negotiated with the State. He said that the County wants to be fairly selective and work with the Department of Commerce. Anyone is welcome to come and look. Darrell Russell, City of Mebane Engineer, said that in conversations with the County's Design Engineer, the preliminary design is based on primarily low water use type industries. Craig Benedict said that no matter what happens, there will have to be a utility service agreement between Orange County and Mebane. Ed Hook asked about the '/4-cent sales tax and if there would be a presentation to the City Council. Frank Clifton said that he would work with Robert Wilson on presenting something so that the Council can endorse it. 3. ORANGE AND ALAMANCE COUNTY LINE UPDATE— County staff will summarize the status of this project and schedule for further actions. (Craig Benedict) Craig Benedict said that over the last few years they have been trying to define the 1849 county line. Based on recent legislation, 91% of the line has been agreed upon. This leaves 9%, which was a separate local bill. The county attorneys have been working together to resolve this. This 9% is within five different sections of the county. There are modifications in North Orange subdivision, a minor modification on Ninth Street, Mebane I-85/40 LLC just north of Tanger, the Tanger project, Collington Farms, Arlington Fontaine, and an area south on Mebane Oaks. On October 17th in Alamance County and October 18th in Orange County, there will be public hearing. The local bill for the 9% was not as criteria intensive as the other bill. Craig Benedict made reference to the Mill Creek and the Morrow Mill section. Some deviations were made that lie outside the 91% and the 9%. It is the intent that after the 100% is resolved, that specific petitions will come forward from those two areas and can be focused and isolated with new legislative bills that would have to be agreed upon or not on both sides of the line and submitted independent of this process. Letters have been written from the Board of County Commissioners' Chair to the residents of the area explaining this process. Frank Clifton continued to explain this process for these two areas to make separate petitions. In answer to a question about the Efland sewer, Frank Clifton said that ultimately there will be 400 sewer customers. The specifics will be sent to Mebane. He said that all of the discussions that the County has had with the people in that area have led the County to follow the Mebane outside-the-city rate and there should be no problems. The groundbreaking is supposed to be October 21St Robert Wilson said that these customers could not be annexed if Mebane wanted to because they are six miles outside of the city limits. Commissioner Jacobs made reference to the Efland-Mebane Small Area Plan in 2004 and said that the Mebane elected officials kept assuring the Efland residents that Mebane had no intention of annexing Efland. He also remembers after the meeting last year, he and Tim Bradley exchanged some emails about farmland preservation. He said that they are looking at all of the economic development opportunities. He would like to step back and look at the entire picture of the joint borders. He said that Orange County can work on farmland preservation, extend trails, and work on recreation opportunities, and those are not in this picture. He said