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7. Annexation and Service (i.e. includes a provision for voluntary annexation). <br />Applications for service for property located east of Buckhorn Road within <br />the service area shall be required to be accompanied by a voluntary <br />annexation application to the City for annexation into the corporate limits of <br />the City. The application may be acted upon by the City of Mebane at their <br />discretion. <br />Potential Urban Growth Annexation Areas and Excluded Area <br />The potential urban growth annexation boundary would include A, B, C, <br />D.1 -5 and E -2. Specific areas (as noted on the attached map labeled Central <br />Efland Phase 1 and Phase 2 and area E -1) are not intended for annexation at <br />the time of this amended agreement. These areas would be part of the <br />utility service area and pay `out of town' rates or as decided by separate <br />agreement. <br />8. Planning Standards. Each party to this Agreement shall retain such <br />planning and regulation of development powers and authority within the <br />service areas as shall now exist or are hereafter expanded or modified by <br />North Carolina Statutes and agreements made from time to time by the City <br />and County which agreements are authorized by North Carolina Statutes. <br />Nothing contained herein shall be construed to limit or to expand any such <br />regulatory or planning jurisdiction or to limit the power of the City to annex <br />into its corporate limits properties within the service area. <br />9. Additional Documentation. The parties agree to and hereby authorize the <br />County Manager and County Attorney and City Manager and City Attorney <br />to prepare and to execute all such other and further documentation or <br />agreements as shall be necessary or desirable in effectuating this <br />Agreement. <br />10. Reservation of Capacity <br />a. Sewer. City shall reserve for the Service Area .25 Million Gallons <br />per Day of capacity in its Sewer Treatment Plant. County shall pay <br />City $50,000.00 (hereafter referred to as `Reservation Fee') per year <br />for ten years from the date first above recorded in this Amended <br />Agreement to preserve and reserve this capacity. At such time as <br />County makes the tenth and final payment of $50,000.00 City shall <br />assume responsibility for determining the appropriate capacity in the <br />Service Area. <br />b. Water. City shall provide water service in proportion to the sewer <br />service provided. <br />C. Reservation Fees <br />1. As utility customers connect to the Service Area system <br />Reservation Fees shall be reduced pro rata. <br />2. Reservation Fees and capacity reservation may be amended <br />as needed by written agreement of the Parties. <br />-4_ <br />Final Version — Approved 6/19/12 Orange County Board of Commissioners, 7/9/12 Mebane City Council <br />