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11 1 Tom Altieri referred to the Land Management Agreement (slides 3-4) and reviewed the 2 steps necessary to work toward a joint land use plan. He noted there would be ETJ 3 adjustment, re-zonings, subdivision ordinance amendments, as well as the larger Central 4 Orange coordinated area. Moving to slide 5, he noted that the town is at step one of this 5 process. This is to prepare and adopt a future land use plan for the entire urban services area, 6 to include town city limits, ETJ and the orange and blue areas on the map. He said the county 7 has submitted comments to the town on its initial draft, and the town has had two public 8 hearings. The recommendations from that meeting were provided in a packet. Moving to slide 9 7, he noted the Planning Board recommendation date of February 7 and the Town Board 10 consideration of adopting the map on March 11. 11 Tom Altieri referenced the handout for Agenda Item 2: Summary of Comments 12 Provided to Hillsborough and Guide to Remaining Issues 13 He noted that this sheet is a summary of comments submitted last October. Each 14 county comment or concern is followed by a Planning Board recommendation that addresses 15 the issue. He referenced the first example, on the first page. The county has commented on 16 the issue of Urban Service area boundaries with no land use recommendations. County staff 17 worked together to fill it in. However there is a remaining concern that some areas in the urban 18 services boundaries, which are envisioned to have water and sewer someday, have been 19 classified as rural living, or working farm. This leaves the question of whether this is the type of 20 intensity necessary in those areas. 21 Tom Altieri then referenced item number 7 on the handout, which refers to concern 22 about high density residential uses north of town. This concern has not yet been addressed. 23 Craig Benedict said that during their discussion over the years, putting residential north 24 of Hillsborough will cause people to want to drive through Hillsborough to access 85/40. This 25 will exacerbate the problem of limited roadway. He noted that land use categories being put 26 together now are for future land use and may not reflect what is happening currently. The 27 future land use category is for cases where a developer comes forward and is in a designated 28 public water, sewer area. The area being discussed is the southwest quadrant of 1-40 and the 29 South Churton, Old 86 area. He said that developers are very interested in this area around the 30 hospital and Durham Tech and the land use category should be compatible with this. 31 Tom Altieri said there is joint meeting of the Town of Hillsborough and Board of County 32 Commissioners on Feb. 21st and they wanted to bring this forward to the Board tonight, prior to 33 that meeting, to receive questions and get input before the land uses are formally adopted. 34 Chair Jacobs, with reference to the colored map, said that Orange County had a vision 35 to withdraw urban development in the Upper Eno watershed. He pointed out that it is not a 36 coincidence that there is a rural buffer connecting with an existing rural buffer with Chapel 37 Hill/Carrboro. He noted that this creates a separation with Durham to the east and protects Eno 38 River State Park, and then surrounds Hillsborough and goes through the Upper Eno watershed, 39 which is identified as one of the highest level priority protection areas in the Lands Legacy 40 Program. He said that Hillsborough is very amenable to having the same vision for land use, 41 long term, that Chapel Hill and Carrboro embraced 25 years ago. 42 43 Commissioner Rich asked who would have held the public hearing for citizens input.