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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: June 3, 2014 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 7 -d <br />SUBJECT: Joint Planning Land Use Plan and Agreement Amendments — Agricultural <br />Support Enterprises Within the Rural Buffer Land Use Classification <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) No <br />ATTACHMENTS: <br />1. Resolution Approving Amendments <br />2. March 27, 2014 Joint Public Hearing <br />Minutes <br />3. Planning Board Minutes — April 2 and <br />May 7, 2014 <br />Informational Attachments: <br />4. Map Showing Properties in the Joint <br />Planning Area Currently Enrolled in the <br />Present -Use Value Tax Program <br />5. Land Uses in the Rural Buffer <br />6. Chart of Basic Zoning Program <br />7. Proposed Comprehensive Plan and <br />Unified Development Ordinance <br />Amendments <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Perdita Holtz, Planner III, (919) 245 -2578 <br />Craig Benedict, Director, (919) 245 -2592 <br />PURPOSE: To consider amendments to the Joint Planning Land Use Plan and Agreement to <br />allow for the possibility of locating appropriate Agricultural Support Enterprises within the Rural <br />Buffer land use classification. <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.gov /planning /Documents.asp. <br />A Joint Planning Area (JPA) Public Hearing was held on March 27, 2014 to review proposed <br />modifications to the Land Use Plan and Agreement in order to allow appropriate agricultural <br />support enterprise uses in the Rural Buffer land use classification. The agenda materials for the <br />joint public hearing are available at: http:// orangecountync .gov /occlerks /140327JPH.pdf. <br />Minutes for the joint public hearing are contained in Attachment 2. <br />At the March 27, 2014 joint public hearing, a Carrboro Board of Aldermen member requested <br />information on the location of farms in the Rural Buffer. Attachment 4 is a map depicting parcels <br />in the Present -Use Value taxation program. Of the 37,248 acres of land in the Rural Buffer, <br />10,172 acres (345 parcels, comprising approximately 27% of the area) are in the use value <br />