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2 development with a mix of land uses, including housing,office, commercial, academic,research,health care,public assembly,utilitarian, and active and passive recreation areas. A transportation corridor is proposed to be located through the center of the property, which could offer an opportunity for a future fixed-guideway transit facility,bicycle, and pedestrian facilities. The corridor is proposed to include two transit nodes surrounded by mixed use development districts,where land use intensity is concentrated. These areas are called University Villages. Overall,the UNC-Chapel Hill Planning Panel was very pleased with the draft plan,but they did offer additional comments and recommendations on June 17. Johnson, Johnson, and Roy are tentatively scheduled to return with the final land use plans for Horace Williams and Mason Farm in September, 1996. At that time, the University board of Trustees may adopt master land use plans for both tracts. Concurrent with the University's planning process, the Chapel Hill town Council directed the Planning Board to draft language for a new zoning district to be applied to large undeveloped tracts of land. The Town Council hired a consultant, Dwight Merriam of the law firm of Robinson& Cole, to assist in drafting a new zoning district applicable to large properties like the Horace Williams and Mason Farm tracts. On June 17, 1996,the Town Council held a public hearing on the proposed zoning district as well as the potential rezoning of the Horace Williams property. At the conclusion of the hearing,the Council decided to consider establishing a collaborative process for further discussion and refinement of the proposal with a tentative deadline of March 15, 1997. Of significance to Orange County is the fact that a sizable portion of the Horace Williams tract extends into the Chapel Hill and Carrboro Transition Areas delineated in the Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan . The land is identified as Future UNC Development in the plan and residential zoning of the two towns has been applied as per the terms of the Joint Planning Agreement. Any rezoning of UNC land in the transition areas would require approval by Orange County and the respective towns. Upon review of these materials, Orange County may wish to request a more in- depth presentation by the University's consultants. The County may also want to request involvement in the Town's collaborative process to prepare a new zoning district since it might ultimately be applied in the area and the County shares joint approval authority. RECOMMENDATION: As the Board decides.