Agenda - 12-01-2014 - 7a - Amended

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t Future Policy Orange County Planning staff presented some future ETJ expansion request policies at the BOCC work session of November 11, 2014. Orange County may include a process that is more elaborate than required by state law to ensure that the benefits of `joint planning' continue and that advisory board representation of these unincorporated ETJ areas is reasonable and effective. These draft policies will be brought back to the BOCC in February/March of 2015. Orange County Planning Staff finds that the request is consistent with the criteria of the County's land use policies. The Town of Chapel Hill's Land Use Plan currently incorporates the requested area, and given the close proximity of the Town's existing municipal limits, the site is within an anticipated and natural growth area for the Town. Water and sanitary sewer service is available or can be made available to the property and the area's geographical location and infrastructure funding potential makes it more conducive for these properties to be under ETJ authority of the Town. Given this information, staff recommends approval of the Town of Chapel Hill's request for extension of its ETJ. FINANCIAL IMPACT: There is no direct correlation to county fiscal impacts since the area is presently within Chapel Hill's JPA planning area and therefore there is no change to the county's planning staff workload. However, this change may allow Chapel Hill to explore other funding sources to assist in the infrastructure development of this area. RECOMMENDATION(S): The Manager recommends the Board: 1. Approve the extraterritorial jurisdiction request by the Town of Chapel Hill pursuant to the Resolution in Attachment 5. 2. Authorize the County Manager to proceed with developing a long term plan for the area.