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1 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date:January 16, 1996 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item#,-rjtq,. <br /> SUBJECT: CP-3-95 LAND USE ELEMENT AMENDMENT(NATURAL&CULTURAL RESOURCES) <br /> DEPARTMENT: PLANNING PUBLIC HEARING: Yes X No <br /> ATTACHMENTS: INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> Planning Director X2592 <br /> Proposed Amendments <br /> [Refer to 11/27/95 Public Hearing Agenda Packet] TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br /> Draft 11/27/95 Public Hearing Minutes Hillsborough 732-8181 <br /> Draft 12/18/95 Planning Board Minutes Chapel Hill 967-9251 <br /> Durham 688-7331 <br /> Mebane 227-2031 <br /> PURPOSE: To consider proposed amendments to the Land Use Element of the Comprehensive Plan. <br /> BACKGROUND: The current Section 2.2, Natural Environment, of the Land Use Element was initially <br /> adopted in September, 1981. Only two amendments have been made to that section since <br /> than. The first amendment occurred in August, 1989, following completion of a staff- <br /> generated Inventory of Sites of Cultural Historical Recreational, Biological, and <br /> Geological Sigificance in the Unincorporated Portions of Orange County. The second <br /> amendment occurred in December, 1993,and included changes to the "Water Resources" <br /> section through which to implement, in part, the State's Water Supply Watershed <br /> Protection Act of 1989. <br /> Revisions to the above mentioned sections of the Land Use Element were proposed at the <br /> November 27, 1995 public hearing for the following reasons: <br /> • Inventories for historic sites (1992-93), archaeological sites (1993-1994), and <br /> natural areas and wildlife habitats (1987-1988) have been prepared but have not <br /> been incorporated into the Land Use Element. <br /> • With the adoption of the Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan in 1986, and updates of <br /> various Township components in 1988, a new Land Use Plan category, Resource <br /> Protection Area, was introduced. The Land Use Plan is a composite of Township <br /> Plans, but the application of the Resource Protection Area category to the county- <br /> wide plan has not been accomplished. <br /> • As part of its recommendations, the Rural Character Study Committee (1993) <br /> advocated the preparation of a Comprehensive Resources Map to identify and <br /> overlay critical environmental, natural, wildlife, cultural, historic, archaeological, <br />