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I k 2 area and ( ) it would simplify the oversight of the new joint �.anni area. ng MayorF Wallace proposed that a planning board consisting of members from the Chapel Hill and orange Count Planning g y arming hoards be formed to oversee thisi new joint planning area regardless if the three extra miles are grantod or not. He made reference to the General Statutes of North Carolina. end, indicated that under the statutes, municipalities extend their extraterritorial jurisdiction u may cor orate l� �1'lto areas outside their p .its so *that they,can plan s.nd. control development which they will at some point annex into the co p Col corporate limits.. I"Te �sed. that the hoard. of mmissioners consider this request and pledged cooperation in this ende .vo�� He supported � � � ion pp his request stating the three mile margin would a11ow for development to proceed in a matter acceptable to Chapel Hill. The Town is boxed in on all four sides with no where to go. He noted it a specious argument that the 1,500 or OOH people now live in the extraterritorial � p pie who or.�al would be denied. representation. He pointed out the people in that area would be able t voice their opinions to the Chapel Hill Planning Boa � Adjustment, � g rd and the hoard of Commissioner Carey asked Mayor Wallace for clarification how the request for extraterritorial planning jurisdiction on encroach on the aband � p � does not abandonment of the Joint planning effort that has been put forth. Mayo Wallace explained that the transition and -the rural buffer added together is too small for the circumstances a Council is �.s] ,�� that the f today. The transitional area be moved out three miles to establish a new transition and buffer zone. He added that has had, to inherit over the chapel Hill years, the mistakes made by others in areas which were beyond Chapel Hill's jurisdiction and later annexed Commissioner Carey emphasized that th of Chapel H�11 i e desires of the people p have been considered in the Joint Planning and use plan and subsequent !procedures. At the time � p i chapel Hill annexed those areas they will, at that time, have exclusive Jurisdiction over those areas, Chair Wil.lhoit gave background inform Planning effort which � information on the Joint g ch has lead. to the cooperative spirit that now prevails. The Joint Planning Agreement proposes that the urban standards develo ed b y the Tow n and jointly adopted would be imposed in the area called the transition area which may eventually the town. At the rase � Y �.11y become part of present time there are four (4) different proposals on where the line imay be. The rural buffer would be an area not be destined. to become art o ea which would f the Town and therefore under the County's regulation, Willhoit further agreed that the Joint process does need to be sip. lif led Planning p and eventually will need to involve Durham County, 1 Durham City and Chatham County to work out solve jurisdicti!onal . plan tv d�.sputes. commissioner Marshall concurred with th Chair willhoit and Commissioner a statements made by Carey+ She commented on the statement made by Mayor Waal 1lace about the disinfranchisement of several people and. empha�ied it would. b thousand e a specious argument. It is imrportant to get people informed and involved earl about what doing. There has never be the bounty �.s been any argument that the land must be prepared for municipal annexation. The people who live ' should. be a art p p �n the area .involved. p of the process and represented.. She estiI the size and. jurisdictional ma eu p of the Chapel Hill Township Advisory Council and suggested that perhaps it may be necessary Chapel Hill township advisory y ary t� have three p isory councils to represent the north, south and i