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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: January 29, 2013 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 2 <br />SUBJECT: Town of Hillsborough /Orange County Central Orange Coordinated Area Land <br />Use Plan — Update and Next Steps <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections PUBLIC HEARING: (Y /N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />A. October 2, 2012 BOCC Comment <br />Letter to Town <br />B. Town's Future Land Use Plan (Draft) <br />and Corresponding Key to <br />Recommendations of Town Planning <br />Board (Nov. 2012) <br />C. Hillsborough- Orange Interlocal <br />Agreement Areas <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Tom Altieri, 245 -2579 <br />Abigaile Pittman, 245 -2567 <br />Craig Benedict, 245 -2575 <br />1 <br />PURPOSE: To provide a brief review of joint planning efforts with the Town of Hillsborough <br />and information on the Town's update to its Future Land Use Plan. <br />BACKGROUND: The Town of Hillsborough has initiated a process to prepare a draft Future <br />Land Use Plan (FLUP). The draft Plan covers the Town's planning jurisdiction, plus some <br />additional areas of County jurisdiction, per the Hillsborough- Orange Interlocal Land <br />Management Agreement (December 2009). <br />In general and consistent with the Agreement, the Plan is to be completed and adopted first by <br />Hillsborough, "inviting comments from the BOCC ". Following Town adoption, the BOCC is to <br />consider endorsing the Plan or arranging for negotiation and agreement on any changes <br />followed by joint approval. <br />Following Public Outreach Sessions last fall, the Town held a public hearing on a draft FLUP. <br />The Orange County BOCC reviewed the draft at its October 2, 2012 meeting and submitted <br />comments to the Town (Attachment A). Since then, the Town's Planning Board has <br />recommended several changes to the draft and a second public hearing was held on January <br />17, 2013 to allow the public an opportunity to comment on the Planning Board's <br />recommendations (Attachment B). <br />Attachment C is the map from the Hillsborough- Orange Interlocal Land Management <br />Agreement Central Orange Coordinated Area (2009) that shows the areas for coordination and <br />Extraterritorial Planning Jurisdiction (ETJ) areas to be swapped later in the joint planning <br />process. There are eight key zone categories depicted on the map, which are defined in the <br />Agreement and are as follows: <br />