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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: April 7, 2015 Action Agenda Item No. 7 -a 1 SUBJECT: Joint Planning Land Use Plan and Agreement Amendments — Agricultural Support Enterprises Within the Rural Buffer Land Use Classification DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections PUBLIC HEARING: (Y /N) No ATTACHMENTS: 1. Resolution Approving Amendments 2. Resolutions Adopted by the Towns of Carrboro and Chapel Hill 3. Highlighted Joint Planning Documents Showing Changes from Version Previously Approved by the BOCC 4. List of Town Elected Board Meetings INFORMATION CONTACT: Perdita Holtz, Planner III, (919) 245 -2578 Craig Benedict, Director, (919) 245 -2592 PURPOSE: To reconsider County- initiated amendments to the Joint Planning Land Use Plan and Agreement to allow for the possibility of locating appropriate Agricultural Support Enterprises within the Rural Buffer land use classification. BACKGROUND: The Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) approved a version of these County- initiated amendments at its meeting on June 3, 2014. Materials, including extensive background information, are available at (Item 7 -d): http : / /oranpecountync.pov /occierks /140603. pdf. Amendments to the Joint Planning Land Use Plan and Agreement must be approved by Orange County and the Towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro. County Planning staff has worked extensively with Town staffs, advisory boards, and elected boards since the March 27, 2014 joint public hearing. The item was discussed at both the October 16, 2014 joint Orange County /Town of Carrboro meeting and the November 19, 2014 Assembly of Governments meeting. The Town of Carrboro adopted a second resolution approving the amendments on January 27, 2015 (replacing the version adopted by the Town on October 14, 2014) and the Town of Chapel Hill adopted the same resolution on March 9, 2015 (see Attachment 2). The resolutions adopted by the Towns differ from the version of the amendments previously adopted by the BOCC. Because the three local governments must agree to the same language, the amendments must be reconsidered by the BOCC and approved. The document in Attachment 3 contains the proposed Joint Planning Land Use Plan and Agreement text amendments with changes from the previously adopted version highlighted in yellow. The resolutions adopted by the Towns also include recommendations regarding the proposed amendments to the County's Unified Development Ordinance (UDO). These recommendations will be incorporated into the version of the UDO amendments the BOCC is scheduled to consider on May 5, 2015. It should be noted that one of the recommendations (removal of four