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Excerpts from Joint Planning Land Use Plan SECTION I INTRODUCTION Chapel Hill and Orange County entered into a Jaint Planning Agreement in 1984 which called for the preparation of a Land Use P1an ~or the areas immediately surraunding Chapel Hill and Carrboro but outside the extraterritorial planning jurisdictians- of the two towns. At the saYne time, Chapel Hil.l. was also in the process of revising its Land Use Plan. The two efforts were pursued simultaneously as a Land Use Plan for Chapel Hill and the Joint Planning Area. The work was undertaken by the staffs and Planning Boards of Chapel Hill and Orange County. Background data was collected and analyzed as the starting point for preparation of the Plan. Hundreds of pages of text and tables along with dozens of maps were assembled. Though not a party to the Joint Planning Agreement, Carrboro was a].so updating its Land Use Plan. It alsa participated in the preparation of the Land Use Plan. ~ In an effort to promote public review of this information and stimulate public discuss.inn about the issues, a public information meeting was held on November 13, 1985. The results of the meeting coupled with the background data and public hearings in January and April of 1986 were merged to produce the Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan. The Plan was recommended by the Chapel Hill Town Council on July 14, 1985, partially adopted by the Orange Coun~y Board of Cammissioners on August 19, 1986, and adop~ed in its entirety by both the Tawn. Council and Board of Commi.ssioners on October.l3, 1985. In addition to the preparation of a Joi.nt Planning Area Land Use Plan, the I984 Joint Planning Agreement established pxocedures for the approval of land development projects in designated Transition Areas. Projects were pres~nted at joint public hearings involving the Chapel Hill Town Counci]. and the Orange County Board of Commissioners, and required the approval of both governing baards t4 proceed to the construction phase. The procedure proved, however, to be administra~ively awkward, and, on Februaxy 3, 1987, a revised Agreement was adopted by Chapel Hill and Orange County. While streamlining the cumbersome review/approval procedures inherent in the original Joint Planning Agreement, the revised versian was never implemented. The Town af Carrboro entered into discussions with Chapel Iiill and Orange County, and, on November 2, 1987, a new Jo.int Planning Agreement was adopted 1