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34 <br /> LAW OFFICES <br /> COLEMAN, GLEDH LL & HARGRAVE <br /> A DIAL CDlMMATM <br /> 129 L TRYoN sTR1wr <br /> P.o.i)RAM W9' <br /> HM mCRoum Noi m cARaiNA 27276 <br /> 919-732.21% FRCM 718 D=of <br /> PAX 919.732.7997 MCIFFM L GLMHML. <br /> March 30, 1999 <br /> Alice M. Gordon, Chair <br /> Margaret W. Brown <br /> Moses 'Carey, Jr. <br /> Stephen Halkiotis . <br /> 'Barry Jacobs <br /> Orange County Board of Commissioners <br /> Post Office Box 8181 <br /> Hillsborough, North Carolina 27278 <br /> RE: Implementation of Recommendation of the Small Area <br /> Plan for Carrboro's Northern Study Area - Proposed <br /> NSA Ordinance <br /> Dear Board Members: <br /> I have spent some time studying the.'Ordinance Amending the <br /> Carrboro Land Use Ordinance to Implement the Recommendations of <br /> .the Facilitated Small Area Plan for Carrboro's Northern Study <br /> Area, the so-called 'NSA ordinance. " This ordinance was formally <br /> transmitted to Orange County on February 19, 1999. I have also <br /> reviewed the March 16, 1999 Carrboro staff report to the <br /> Carrboro Board of Aldermen and the undated Orange County <br /> Planning staff comments to you- concerning consistency between <br /> the NSA ordinance and the amended Joint Planning Area Land Use <br /> Plan'. My first observation is that I think that the Planning <br /> staff did an excellent job in highlighting the consistency ' <br /> issues. <br /> The second observation that I have is that it is impossible <br /> to make ld, Land Use Plan consistency review with the information <br /> transmitt-ed to Orange County on February 19, 1999. This is <br /> because the NSA ordinance is structured like a . piece of <br /> legislation, containing section numbers which are not in <br /> themselves part of the Carrboro Land Use Ordinance. Each- section <br /> amends one or more of the sections of the Carrboro Land Use <br /> Ordinance by reference to the ordinance sections amended. <br /> Therefore, without having the Carrboro Land- Use Ordinance in <br />