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3 TO: Orange County Board of Commissioners Chapel Hill Town Council Carrboro Board of Aldermen Orange County Planning Board John Link, Orange County Manager W. Calvin Horton, Chapel Hill Town Manager Robert Morgan, Carrboro Town Manager . FROM: Orange County Planning Staff Chapel Hill Planning Staff Carrboro Planning Staff DATE: April 11, 2001 SUBJECT: JPA -1 -01 Proposed Amendment to the Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan and Map The purpose of this Joint Planning Area Public Hearing is to receive public comment on proposed amendments to the Joint Planning Area (JPA) Land Use Plan, pursuant to the Joint Planning Agreement. The area in question is the Chapel Hill Joint Planning Transition Area, northwest of existing Town Limits. Chapel Hill adopted a new Comprehensive Plan and new Land Use Plan in May, 2000. This hearing focuses on the portions of that new Land Use Plan that are outside Town Limits. Background In July 1998, the Chapel Hill Town Council initiated a revision of the Town's 1989 Comprehensive Plan and 1986 Land Use Plan. A Work Group was appointed in the fall of 1998 with a charge to develop a draft plan to present to the Town Council in September 1999. The preliminary target was to have a new Comprehensive Plan adopted by the end of November 1999. The 31- member Work Group conducted its work through a combination of public symposia, public meetings, direction to staff and consultant, review, discussion, and editing of materials prepared by staff and consultant, and a final vote to send the draft plan on to the Town Council for consideration. The Council received the report at the end of September 1999. The Council held two Public Hearings and conducted three work sessions at which it discussed the draft materials and heard public comment. The Council also discussed a revised timeline for consideration of the draft plans at its January 14, 2000 Planning Session. At that time, the Council set target goals of adopting the Downtown Small Area Plan by April 1, 2000, and adopting the full Comprehensive Plan (which includes a new Land Use Plan) by May 1, 2000.