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Resolution #.-Res. 2014-037 (✓ <br /> A RESOLUTION AMENDING <br /> THE JOINT PLANNING LAND USE PLAN AND JOINT PLANNING AGREEMENT <br /> MODIFYING LANGUAGE TO ENSURE AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES ARE ALLOWED <br /> THROUGHOUT THE RURAL BUFFER; CLARIFY DENSITY AND REQUIRED MINIMUM <br /> LOT SIZE(S); AND ALLOW FOR CLUSTER SUBDIVISIONS THROUGHOUT THE RURAL <br /> BUFFER <br /> WHEREAS, Orange County, the Town of Chapel Hill, and the Town of Carrboro have engaged <br /> in a cooperative planning effort for the area known as the Rural Buffer as detailed within a <br /> Joint Planning Land Use Plan (hereafter `the Plan), adopted October 13, 1986, and amended <br /> from time to time, and <br /> WHEREAS, the administration of this Joint Planning Land Use Plan is laid out within the Joint <br /> Planning Agreement (hereafter `Agreement'), originally adopted on September 22, 1987, and <br /> amended from time to time, and <br /> WHEREAS, Orange County initiated amendments to the Plan and Agreement seeking to <br /> ensure agricultural activities are allowed throughout the area, clarify density and minimum lot <br /> size requirements, and ensure the viability of cluster subdivisions in the area covered by the <br /> Plan and Agreement, and <br /> WHEREAS, these amendments to the Plan and Agreement are necessary to ensure <br /> consistency with the County's existing land use management program, and <br /> WHEREAS, a joint public hearing regarding the proposed Joint Planning Land Use Plan and <br /> Agreement amendments was held on March 27, 2014, in accordance with the requirements of <br /> the Joint Planning Agreement. <br /> NOW THEREFORE, the Board of Commissioners of Orange County hereby resolves that the <br /> Joint Planning Land Use Plan and Agreement be amended shown on the attached pages. <br /> BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT the amendments to the Joint Planning Land Use Plan and <br /> Agreement shall become effective upon adoption by the governing bodies of Orange County, <br /> Chapel Hill, and Carrboro. <br /> r <br /> Upon motion Commissioner r _ � seconded by <br /> Commissioner e foregoing resolution was adopted this <br /> .� day of 2014. <br /> 1 <br />