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002 <br /> An Example of Utilizing the Joint Planning Agreement <br /> In September of 1990, the Chapel Hill Town Council appointed a Work Group to prepare a <br /> Small Area Plan for the Town's southern extraterritorial planning jurisdiction (ETJ) and the <br /> Town's southern joint planning transition area. On June 22, 1992, the Chapel Hill Town <br /> Council adopted a new Land Use Plan in accordance with the Southern Small Area Plan. <br /> Since a portion of Chapel'Hill's-Southern Small Area Plan was located in the Town's southern <br /> joint planning transition area, one of the steps in implementing the Small Area Plan was to <br /> amend the Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan. In November of 1992, both the Town of <br /> Carrboro and the Town of Chapel Hill adopted a resolution amending the Joint Planning Area <br /> Land Use Plan for Chapel Hill's southern transition area. The County Commissioners adopted a <br /> matching resolution in January of 1993, officially amending the Joint Planning Area Land Use <br /> Plan. <br /> The Town of Chapel Hill then zoned the southern planning jurisdictions in conformance with the <br /> adopted Southern Small Area Plan in November of 1993. Chapel Hill and Orange County then <br /> proceeded to conduct a Joint Public Hearing on the proposed zoning changes for the southern <br /> transition area on April 14, 1994. Following the hearing, the Chapel Hill Town Council adopted <br /> a resolution endorsing Residential Low-Density 1 (R-LD1) zoning for the southern transition <br /> area. On August 8, 1994, the Orange County Board of Commissioners approved an ordinance <br /> adopting R-LD1 zoning for the southern transition area. <br />