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• , ORANGE COUNTY . 021 „*. BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA •1•-•- _- . ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT ITEM NO_Ell - MEETING DATE February 4, 3985 • . . . • SUBJECT: PROPOSED THOROUGHFARE PLAN FOR ORANGE COUNTY AND PUBLIC OPINION SURVEY FOR CHAPEL HILL TOWNSHIP ;; ...:_....... DEPARTMENT:. PLANNING . ----I 1 PUBLIC HEARING: YES x NO ____ . _ ATTACHMENT(S) : Map of Joint Planning Area INFORMATION CONTACT: Gene Bell ' showing extent of Chapel Hill-Carrboro . • Thoroughfare PHONE NUMBERS: HILLSBOROUGH - 732-8181 ' - oroughfare Planioutiine of Development' • Characteristics Planning Approach; and HILLSBOROUGH - 732-9361 . . memorandum concerning consultant contacts. • • . CHAPEL HILL - 967-9251 • t • MEBANE - 227-2031. = ; . - DURHAM - 688-7331 - -.-- iT • . PURPOSE: TO consider, (]) requesting -the N.C. Department of Transportation to prepare • ' • ". • a Thoroughfare Plan for Orange County with priority being given to thegoifit Planning Area, and (2) contracting with a consultant for the preparation of ' : . • a Public Opinion 'Survey in Chapel.Hill Township to serve as a mean S of iden- - , tifying Joint Planning concerns of area residents. ; • . . . . . . . • NEED: The Planning. Department hes.initiated work on the Jcsint Planning Area Plan with -. - • Chapel Hill/Carrboro. There are six (6) Major components.goinganto_the pro- . duction of the plan. These are identification of development intensity districts, determination 'of location standardi/ population projections, public opinion •. - - ' ' . survey. thoroughfeie''Plan, and identification of utility service 'areas. Chapel , Hill is responsible for the population projections and OWASA is responsible. for • the identification of .utility service areas. . Orange County is responsible.for - the remaining components. Locational standards will take the 'form of an issUe paper and will be produced in-house. Development intensity 4strict-alwill be determined using the Development. Characteristics Planning Approach. ' • - -. - . - . • The Development. CharacteriStics Planning Approach involves mapping and over,- laying selected environmental paraMeters. The districts that emerge in the overlaying process represent areas of varying environmental Constraints.• Next, - -- . - . _ . development intensity type classificatiohs are applied'to the districts. These •. . . . - classifications determine the type and intensity of land use that will be- -: • . allocated to each dittriCt in the .larid use plan. This approach was approved at a meeting of the managers and planning directors of the re'spective .juris- • 0 . - dictions on January 22, 3955- - . . . • • The Chapel Hill/Carrboro Thoroughfare Plan was -:s adopted by the N.C. Board of . Transportation in September, 1984. The Plan does not cover the entire Joint , Planning Area (see attached map) , but stops approximately three (3) miles .• - from the boundary of the Area. If adequate planning is to be undertaken, an • • . extension of thoroughfare planning efforts to encompass the entire area is - necessary. . -. In addition to the Joint Planning Area, thoroughfare planning for the entire' cdunty is needed. This derives from increasing development applications in • the Hillsborough area and the adoption of a Land Use Plan and zoning in .the • • West Orange area. Given the projected development in those locations, adequacy of the street network must be examined and long-range improvements identified. ' . • ...---