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y 3 AGENDA #18e MEMORANDUM TO: Mayor and Council FROM: W. Calvin Horton, Town Manager SUBJECT: Southern Small Area Plan Zoning: Amendment to Orange County Zoning for Southern Joint Planning Transition Area DATE: July 5, 1994 The attached resolution would approve zoning for the southern joint planning transition area that would be in conformance with the Town's adopted Southern Small Area Plan. We recommend that the Council adopt zoning of Residential Low-Density 1 (one unit per acre) for the southern joint planning transition area (please see attached map). Background On April 14, 1994, the Orange County Board of Commissioners and the Chapel Hill Town Council held a joint public hearing on the proposed zoning of the southern joint planning transition area governed by the Joint Planning Agreement. According to the Joint Planning Agreement, changes to zoning in the joint planning area may be made by Orange County after the approval of the proposal by both the Chapel Hill Town Council and the Orange County Board of Commissioners. This area is the last portion of the Southern Small Area Plan to be zoned in accordance with the adopted Plan. Key Issues Members of the White Rock Church area who spoke at the public hearing on April 14, expressed their support for the proposed Residential Low-Density 1 zoning (one unit per acre), and indicated that they were against the consideration of Residential Low-Density 5 zoning (one unit per five acres). This proposal is for Residential Low-Density zoning (R-LD1). When Chapel Hill adopted zoning for the portion of the Southern Small Area Plan located within the Town's extraterritorial planning jurisdiction (ETJ) on November 22, 1993, it elected to zone the White Rock Church community with one unit per acre zoning, rather than the one unit per five acres land use category shown on the Plan. The current proposal extends this same