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Town of Carrboro Northern Study Area 9 This document provides a Small Area Plan for the future use of the land within Carrboro's northern growth area, referred to as the Northern Study Area. This plan is unique insofar as the process undertaken to produce a policy document in keeping with the needs and desires of the Town of Carrboro, Citizens of Carrboro, and the Residents of the unincorporated areas. The first draft of this plan was presented to the town in February of 1996 by the 31- member "Small Area Planning Work Group" created by the Carrboro Board of Aldermen in 1992. As a result of concerns registered by some residents, particularly residents of the unincorporated portions of the northern study area, the Carrboro Board of Aldermen referred the plan to a two day facilitated planning conference. The two day meeting provided an open forum to afford citizens, property owners, and residents the opportunity to participate in the planning for future of the northern study area. This two day meeting was jointly sponsored by all three I members to the 1987 Joint Planning Agreement, namely: Carrboro, Chapel Hill, and Orange County. The Orange County Dispute Settlement Center facilitated the meeting and Randall Arendt, a planner with the Natural Lands Trust, provided professional planning assistance. The first of the two day meeting process was held on April 19, 1997 at the McDougle Middle School in Carrboro. The first half of this meeting focused on providing participants with an insight on current planning issues associated with the study area, a review of zoning concepts and enabling legislation, projections on future growth and development, and background information regarding the people and history of the study area. The second half of the meeting was devoted to the identification of values, interests, and concerns about the future development of the study area. The participants, numbering almost 150 people, divided into 13 small work groups to articulate their values, interests, and concerns with the assistance of group facilitators. After meeting for almost two hours the breakout groups reconvened as a full group to present their lists of values, interests, and concerns. These reports were refined by the full group and along with a visual preference survey were presented to Randall Arendt to draft a plan for the study area which would be the focus of the second meeting. The second meeting, held on May 31, 1997, was devoted to receiving the plan from Randall Arendt and reaching consensus on a Small Area Plan for the Northern Study Area's growth over the next 20 years. People attending this meeting, broke into small groups, reported their conclusions to the full group, and produced a list of planning policies and principals on which consensus by the full group was reached. This document incorporates the consensus of the two-day facilitated conference into a revised small area plan for further consideration and adoption by the Town of Carrboro, the Town of Chapel Hill, and Orange County under the terms of the 1987 Joint Planning Agreement. Page M, July 1997 Faciliated Small Area Plan