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5 <br /> • Tonight's discussion is to consider if, due to the reduced area of the JPA and <br /> associated reduction in residential population, the JPA representation on the <br /> Chapel Hill Planning Commission and Board of Adjustment should be <br /> amended. <br /> Population Estimates <br /> • The estimated 2013 population of the Town of Chapel Hill, is 59,635. <br /> This represents population within Chapel Hill's corporate limits in both <br /> Orange and Durham County. while there is no formal population <br /> estimate for the planning areas outside the corporate limits (ETJ and <br /> JPA),it is possible to extrapolate a population in the ETJ/JPA based on the <br /> number of dwelling units in those areas (According to the 2010 Census, <br /> there are approximately 2.38 people per household in Chapel Hill). <br /> • The chart below reflects the 2013 corporate limits population and the <br /> extrapolated population for the new ETJ boundary and reduced JPA area. <br /> Chapel Hill Area Population Estimate %of Population <br /> Town Limits 59,635 93.3% <br /> Extraterritorial Jurisdiction 4, 20 6.3% <br /> Joint Planning Area 297 0.4% <br /> Total 63,952 100% <br /> Options for Consideration <br /> Chapel Fitt Planning Commission Recommendation (option A) <br /> • The Chapel Hill Planning Commission recommended amending the Joint <br /> Planning Area agreement to replace the Joint Planning Area member on the <br /> Planning Commission and the Board of Adjustment with a Chapel Hill <br /> Resident. <br /> • The Chapel Hill Planning Commission based their recommendation on the fact <br /> that the current ETJ/JPA population percentage (6.7%) is less that the <br /> representative percentage (22%) of 2 seats on the Planning Commission. The <br /> Commission noted that with one ETJ/JPA seat on the Planning Commission, <br /> there is still almost double the population representation (11%vs.6.7%) on the <br /> Planning Commission. <br />