ORD-1999-003 Proposed Amendments to the Carrboro Land Use Ordinance 05041999

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4 LAW OFFICES COLEMAN, GLEDHILL HARGRAVE A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION 129 L TRYON snumT P.O.DRAWER 1529 HILLSBOROUGH,NORTH CAROLINA 27275 919-732-21% FROWM DESK Of FAX 919-732-7997 GEOFFREY E.GLEDHML March 30, 1999 Alice M. Gordon, Chair Margaret W. Brown Moses Carey, Jr. Stephen Halkiotis Barry Jacobs Orange County Board of Commissioners Post Office Box 8181 Hillsborough, North Carolina 27278 RE: implementation of Recommendation of the Small Area Plan for Carrboro's Northern Study Area - Proposed NSA ordinance Dear Board Members: I have spent some time studying the 'ordinance Amending the Carrboro Land Use Ordinance to Implement the Recommendations of the Facilitated Small Area Plan for Carrboro's Northern Study Area, the so-called "NSA ordinance. " This ordinance was formally transmitted to Orange County on February 19, 1999. 1 have also reviewed the March 16, 1999 Carrboro staff report to the Carrboro Board of Aldermen and the undated Orange County Planning staff comments to you concerning consistency between the NSA ordinance and the amended Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan. My first observation is that I think that the Planning staff did an excellent job in highlighting the consistency issues. The second observation that I have is that it is impossible to make a' Land Use Plan consistency review with the information transmitted to Orange County on February 19, 1999 . This is because the NSA ordinance is structured like a piece of legislation, containing section numbers which are not in themselves part of the Carrboro Land Use Ordinance. Each section amends one or more of the sections of the Carrboro Land Use Ordinance by reference to the ordinance sections amended. Therefore, without having the Carrboro Land Use Ordinance in