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32 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> TOWN OF CHAPEL HILL COUNCIL <br /> TOWN OF CARRBORO BOARD OF ALDERMEN <br /> JOINT PLANNING AREA (JPA) JOINT PUBLIC HEARING <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: March 27, 2014 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. C.2 <br /> SUBJECT: Text Amendments to the Joint Planning Land Use Plan and Agreement— <br /> Revise Existing Language to Allow for the Possibility of Locating Appropriate Agricultural <br /> Support Enterprises in the Rural Buffer Land Use Classification. <br /> DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) Yes <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: (919) <br /> Pages of Joint Planning Land Use Plan and Perdita Holtz, Orange County Planning, 245- <br /> Agreement Proposed for Amendment 2578 <br /> Craig Benedict, Orange County Planning, 245- <br /> 2592 <br /> J.B. Culpepper, Town of Chapel Hill Planning, <br /> 968-2728 <br /> Trish McGuire, Town of Carrboro Planning, <br /> 918-7324 <br /> PURPOSE: To receive public comment on a proposal to amend the Joint Planning Land Use <br /> Plan and Agreement to allow for the possibility of locating appropriate agricultural support <br /> enterprises in the Rural Buffer land use classification. <br /> Please note: The Orange County Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) text amendments that <br /> would implement the concept of allowing appropriate agricultural support enterprises in the <br /> Rural Buffer are not the focus of this public hearing. The UDO text amendments were heard at <br /> the County's February 24, 2014 quarterly public hearing and the process prescribed in the Joint <br /> Planning Agreement for UDO text amendments affecting the Rural Buffer was followed. The <br /> UDO amendments cannot be adopted by Orange County unless the Joint Planning Land Use <br /> Plan and Agreement are amended to allow these types of uses in the Rural Buffer. The draft <br /> UDO text amendments are part of the quarterly public hearing materials available at: <br /> http://orangecountync.gov/occierks/140224.pdf. <br /> BACKGROUND: In the mid-1980s Orange County and the Towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro <br /> adopted a Joint Planning Land Use Plan and accompanying Agreement that provided land use <br /> planning for the area of the county commonly referred to as the Rural Buffer. Other geographic <br /> areas, such as Transition Areas, are also covered in the plan. The full plan and agreement is <br /> available at: http://orangecountync.qov/planning/Documents.asp. <br />