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are in the Eno critical watershed area, which could not be developed because of watershed constraints. For this reason, this ETJ will be abandoned and a new ETJ closer to the core of Hillsborough will be drawn. Blue and Orange areas are very similar to the transition areas of Chapel Hill/Carrboro in the joint planning agreement. These areas will have urban style growth and urban services. The last area is the white boundary, which is the coordinated planning area. He said that if Hillsborough plans to be a city of five to seven thousand people one day, the rural area around it must be controlled to avoid a sprawl zone. An urban service ring around Hillsborough is being proposed, similar to Chapel Hill. The perimeter area would be controlled by Orange County Land Usage Zone. He said it is now time to start assigning land use. Tom Altieri referred to the Land Management Agreement (slides 3-4) and reviewed the steps necessary to work toward a joint land use plan. He noted there would be ETJ adjustment, re-zonings, subdivision ordinance amendments, as well as the larger Central Orange coordinated area. Moving to slide 5, he noted that the town is at step one of this process. This is to prepare and adopt a future land use plan for the entire urban services area, to include town city limits, ETJ and the orange and blue areas on the map. He said the county has submitted comments to the town on its initial draft, and the town has had two public hearings. The recommendations from that meeting were provided in a packet. Moving to slide 7, he noted the Planning Board recommendation date of February 7 and the Town Board consideration of adopting the map on March 11. Tom Altieri referenced the handout for Agenda Item 2: Summary of Comments Provided to Hillsborough and Guide to Remaining Issues He noted that this sheet is a summary of comments submitted last October. Each county comment or concern is followed by a Planning Board recommendation that addresses the issue. He referenced the first example, on the first page. The county has commented on the issue of Urban Service area boundaries with no land use recommendations. County staff worked together to fill it in. However there is a remaining concern that some areas in the urban services boundaries, which are envisioned to have water and sewer someday, have been classified as rural living, or working farm. This leaves the question of whether this is the type of intensity necessary in those areas. Tom Altieri then referenced item number 7 on the handout, which refers to concern about high density residential uses north of town. This concern has not yet been addressed. Craig Benedict said that during their discussion over the years, putting residential north of Hillsborough will cause people to want to drive through Hillsborough to access 85/40. This will exacerbate the problem of limited roadway. He noted that land use categories being put together now are for future land use and may not reflect what is happening currently. The future land use category is for cases where a developer comes forward and is in a designated public water, sewer area. The area being discussed is the southwest quadrant of 1-40 and the South Churton, Old 86 area. He said that developers are very interested in this area around the hospital and Durham Tech and the land use category should be compatible with this. Tom Altieri said there is joint meeting of the Town of Hillsborough and Board of County Commissioners on Feb. 21 stand they wanted to bring this forward to the Board tonight, prior to that meeting, to receive questions and get input before the land uses are formally adopted.