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25 1 ➢ Town of Chapel Hill considering Monday, June 9 2 3 Recommendation for Tonight 4 1. Deliberate as necessary on the proposed amendments to the Joint Planning Land Use 5 Plan and Agreement 6 2. Decide accordingly and/or adopt the Resolution contained in Attachment 1 which 7 approves the amendments to the Joint Planning Land Use Plan and Agreement 8 9 Commissioner Gordon noted that the Commissioners have an email at their places with 10 her suggestion and staff responses. She is concerned about high intensity uses in the Rural 11 Buffer. 12 Commissioner Gordon said she suggested the addition of language to the JPA. She 13 said the attorney said it was fine to add clarification, and planning staff said this was workable; 14 however, this would have to go before the boards. 15 Commissioner Gordon said this would only be a change to page 9 of the packet, in the 16 blue sentence that is right before item C. She suggested adding language that refers to the 17 agricultural support uses as "those allowable in the Rural Buffer that are permitted through the 18 ASE-CZ." 19 Michael Harvey said staff has provided a response. He said the joint planning land use 20 plan is just a plan. He said the document spelling out allowable or unpermitted uses is the 21 UDO, and the existing language achieves what Commissioner Gordon is looking for. He said 22 the agricultural support enterprises conditional zoning district is a floating district, and it is only 23 applied when someone makes application for it. He said there is a specific set of allowed uses, 24 and if it not listed as permitted, then it is not noted as permitted in that particular district. 25 26 A motion was made by Commissioner Gordon to modify the language to include "or 27 those agricultural support uses allowable in the Rural Buffer that are permitted" to the end of 28 the blue text on page 9 of the abstract. 29 30 No second. Motion fails. 31 32 A motion was made by Commissioner Pelissier, seconded by Commissioner McKee for 33 the Board to: 34 1. Deliberate as necessary on the proposed amendments to the Joint Planning Land Use 35 Plan and Agreement, 36 2. Decide accordingly and/or adopt the Resolution contained in Attachment 1 which approves 37 the amendments to the Joint Planning Land Use Plan and Agreement. 38 39 Chair Jacobs referred to page 9, where the Rural Buffer is essentially defined. He said 40 he is opposed to the definition of Rural Buffer as a "low-density area consisting of single-family 41 homes." He said there are other uses that are specified, such as farms, resource conservation 42 areas and natural areas. He feels the listed definition is oversimplified and inaccurate. 43 Michael Harvey referred to page 57, which breaks the Rural Buffer into individual land 44 use categories. He said the Rural Buffer is a generic term that refers to an area of the County 45 that is composed of 7 or 8 individual land use categories that further define the Rural Buffer. 46 He said the Rural Buffer is just a term, and it actually incorporates the University Lake 47 Watershed area, the resource protection areas, and public/private open space areas. 48 Chair Jacobs said the simple way to put it is that the Rural Buffer is the set, and those 49 are all of the subsets.