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• This requires a robust out-reach and public notification process. Affected properties plus those within 500 feet of affected properties must receive written notification of any public hearing by certified mail ($6 per letter). 2) Implement the two types of urbanizing areas as defined by the Inter local Agreement. • This involves transitioning another 1,000 acres to the town's zoning jurisdiction through the Hillsborough Urbanizing designation. The notification requirements are similar and about one half of the affected owners are already developed areas. • If the town follows its FLUP and essentially "pre-zones" the undeveloped areas during the transition, it removes an important negotiating aspect of the development review process from the town's toolkit. Margaret Hauth noted that the ETJ has town zoning category, and this does not line up 100 percent with the County. She said AR in the town and AR in the County may not mean the same thing. She said the town has R-10 and R-40, and the County has R-1 and R- 2. She said this requires a formal re-zoning process. Margaret Hauth said before the move forward on this public process staff wanted to ask the boards is this something they want to do. She said it is important to note that if the town re-zones the properties coming into their ETJ consistent with the future land use map this will involve pre-zoning a fair amount of property and putting in districts that will subject it to fairly intense development. She said this takes away the town's tool of negotiating with property owners through the special use zoning process. She said the point of ETJ's is to prep areas for annexation to bring them more in line with municipal regulations. She said a lot of the areas being added are already developed. She noted that the Wildwood subdivision is actually developed at a smaller minimum lot size than the town currently has in its unified development ordinance. She said the lines of communication are open, and all projects of 5 acres or 20 dwelling units or more that come within the town's planning jurisdiction are shared with the County planning department for comments. She said when the County gets a request for a project that wants water and sewer service in the urban service but outside of the planning area, this is sent to the town for comments. Margaret Hauth reviewed the following from the handouts: Have we achieved what we wanted to achieve? • The lines of communication are open between the two planning department staffs during the development review process. • The amended Water and Sewer Boundary Agreement memorializes the Urban Services Boundary and documents the commitment to the boundary. • Unlike twenty or more years ago, the town rarely approves utility extension agreements without annexation due to the equity issues regarding paying for the town services used and to minimize customers that must pay higher out of town utility rates. • Due to local preferences and amendments to the state annexation laws, the town rarely annexes using the involuntary process (once in the last 22 years). Does the full implementation of the Inter local Agreement achieve substantially more? • ETJ is intended to ensure that new development in areas that are likely to be annexed is consistent with the development regulation of the annexing community. Recent changes to the annexation laws reduce the likelihood of the proposed ETJ areas being annexed, except in the case of major redevelopment. Moving developed neighborhoods into the