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r' r 0714 Rezoning in Accordance With the Southern Small Area Plan One of the implementation steps recommended in the adopted Southern Small Area Plan was to adjust the zoning in the area, so that the zoning conforms with the land uses approved in the southern small area plan. On November 22, 1993, the Chapel Hill Town Council rezoned 12 areas constituting the entire portion of the Southern Small Area Plan that is in Chapel Hill's extraterritorial planning jurisdiction (ETJ). In rezoning the southern area, the Town of Chapel Hill sought to keep existing residential neighborhoods under their existing zoning, and zone the remaining area in accordance with the adopted land use plan for the southern area. On February 14, 1994, the Chapel Hill Town Council rezoned a small portion of the southern area, from R-LD1 (one unit per acre) to R-LD5 (one unit per five acres). This additional zoning was in conformance with the adopted land use plan for the southern area. Rezoning the Joint Planning Transition Area in Accordance with Chapel Hill's Southern Small Area Plan The majority of the southern area is located within Chapel Hill's extraterritorial planning jurisdiction (ETJ). However, an area of approximately 205 acres is in the Joint Planning Transition Area. This 205 acre area is bounded generally by U.S. 15-501 to the west, the ETJ line to the north, Old Lystra Road to the east, and the Chatham County line to the south. Presently, this area is zoned R-1 Residential, which requires 17,000 square feet of gross land area for a single-family detached house. The Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan has been amended to reflect a land use of one unit per acre for the land in this Joint Planning Area that is west of Wilson Creek. A land use of one unit per five acres was adopted for the land that is east of Wilson Creek. At Chapel Hill's public hearing on the proposed rezonings for the portion of the southern area plan that falls in Chapel Hill's ETJ, however, residents of the White Rock Church Road Area spoke against the proposed R-LD5 zoning (Residential-Low Density 5) district that would allow a five-acre minimum lot size for a single family house. (The White Rock Church area is east of Wilson Creek, and has an adopted land use of one unit per five acres.) A total of six representatives from the White Rock Church area off Old Lystra Road spoke against the proposed R-LD5 rezoning, asserting that such a rezoning would create hardships for individual owners in the area, and damage the long-standing community that has existed there for decades. Families expressed concern about not being able to subdivide their land, for their children to build on. The Chapel Hill Town Council decided the R-LD1 zoning (Residential-Low Density 1) which would allow a one acre (43,560 square feet) minimum lot size, would better permit the kind of future subdivision activity that property owners requested at the hearing: that is, the subdivision of lots into parcels that can be made available to family members. Therefore, the Council adopted R-LD1 zoning for the portion of this community that falls in the ETJ.