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REPORT AND RECOMMENDATIONS OR purr PLANNING <br /> Prepared by Alice Gordon and Alice Ingram <br /> September 10.1985 <br /> I. Summary of the Joint Planning Task <br /> Directive to Plan n in o Board chairs. In a July 23 work session on Joint <br /> Planning involving the two governing bodies(Chapel Hill Town Council and Or ange <br /> County Board.of Commissioners)and the two planning boards, the Chairs of the <br /> Orange County Planning Board and the Chapel Hill Planning Board were direc <br /> the two governing bodies to coordinate joint planning activities. As a first step, he <br /> they to facilitate the preparation of the Land Use Plan for the Joint Planning Area y <br /> Descri Lion of the Dint Plannin A reement. The Joint Planning Area is the <br /> area outside the extraterritorial planning jurisdictions of the Towns but within the <br /> Joint Planning Area boundary as shown on the Orange County map entitled"Land U se <br /> Plan " According to the Joint Planning Agreement(1)the Orange County land use <br /> plan.zoning ordinance,and subdivision ordinance shall remain in effect in the <br /> entire joint planning area until amended as described in the agreement(2)Orange <br /> County and Chapel Hill shall develop a land use plan and zoning map to be applicable <br /> in the ten and twenty year transition zones shown on the county Land Use laan p <br /> (3 I Upon completion of the land use plan and zoning map,Orange County shall adopt, <br /> on the Chapel Hill Side of the joint planing area located witin the ten and twenty year zones,that portion of the land use plan.zoning map Y ar <br /> standards of the Chapel development ordinance which shall be and plicable to the Chapel Hill Side(4)There will be a courtesy review process in the rural buffer <br /> zones <br /> of the joint planning area and in the extraterritorial zoning jurisdiction of the Tow <br /> Other portions of the agreement address such things as the administration of the n. <br /> agreement,including the handling of development proposals in the ten and twenty <br /> year transition zones,and the procedure for amending the agreement. <br /> II. Description of the Joint Planning Procedure <br /> Outline of the 'oint 'loon in_ •rocess for the Land Use Plan. The first task is to <br /> develop a Land Use Plan for the Joint Planning Area(JPA)using the December 10 <br /> deadline given by the governing bodies as a target date for the public hearing on the <br /> plan. The two chairs met on August 6,as described in the attached summary,and <br /> agreed on an outline for the joint planning process. (See <br /> orange booklet, giving JPA Background Data,for the complete outline). The out inee <br /> included the following major elements: <br /> 1.Plan Development(Background Data) <br /> A.Natural Environment("God given") <br /> B.Infrastructure and Public Services("people given") <br /> C. Goals and Objectives('what people want") <br /> D. Sociological Characteristics(existing and projected characteristics) <br /> II.Plan Formulation <br /> A. Land Use Plan Categories and Location Standards <br /> B. Draft Land Use Plan <br /> Deseriolion of work comleted The work completed to date is contained in <br /> (1)the orange booklet, "Joint Planning Area Background Data,"August 30 1984 <br /> (2)the set of pages entitled"Joint Planning Area Background Area-Additions.' <br /> September 5,1985 and(3)a series of Joint Planning Wall Maps which are listed in the <br /> Appendix given in the "Additions." Most of the background data needed for the plan <br /> development phase are included,with sections IA,IB,and ID being the most complete. <br /> Section IC(goals and objectives)still needs work <br /> • <br />