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r• REPORT AND RECOMMENDATIONS ON JOINT PLANNING 020 Prepared by Mice Gordon and Mice Ingram September 10,1985 I. Summary of the Joint Planning Task Directive to Planning Board chairs. In a July 23 work session on Joint Planning involving the two governing bodies(Chapel Hill Town Council and Orange County Board of Commissioners)and the two planning boards, the Chairs of the Orange County Planning Board and the Chapel Hill Planning Board were:directed by the two governing bodies to coordinate joint planning activities. As a first step,they were to facilitate the preparation of the Land Use Plan for the Joint Planning Area. Description of the Joint Planning Agreement The Joint Planning Area is the area outside the extraterritorial planning jurisdictions of the Towns.but within the Joint Planning Area boundary as shown on the Orange County map entitled"Land Use Plan." According to the Joint Planning Agreement(1)the Orange County land use plan.zoning ordinance,and subdivision ordinance shall remain in effect in the entire joint planning area until amended as described in the agreement(2)Orange County and Chapel Hill shall develop a land use plan and zoning map to be applicable in the ten and twenty year transition zones shown on the county Land Use Plan map t 3)Upon completion of the land use plan and zoning map,Orange County shall adopt, on the Chapel Hill Side of the joint planing area located witin the ten and twenty year transition zones,that portion of the land use plan,zoning map and the development standards of the Chapel development ordinance which shall be applicable to the Chapel Hill Side (4)There will be a courtesy review process in the rural buffer zones of the joint planning area and in the extraterritorial zoning jurisdiction of the Town. Other portions of the agreement address such things as the administration of the agreement,including the handling of development proposals in the ten and twenty year transition zones,and the procedure for amending the agreement. II. Description of the Joint Planning Procedure Outline of the joint planning process for the Land Use Plan. The first task is to develop a Land Use Plan for the Joint Planning Area(JPA)using the December 10 deadline given by the governing bodies as a target date for the public hearing on the plan. The two chairs met on August 6,as described in the attached summary,and agreed on an outline for the joint planning process. (See pages two and three of the orange booklet, giving JPA Background Data,for the complete outline). The outline included the following major elements: I.Plan Development(Background Data) A.Natural Environment("God given") B.Infrastructure and Public Services("people given") C. Goals and Objectives('what people want") D. Sociological Characteristics(existing and projected characteristics) II.Plan Formulation A. Land Use Plan Categories and Location Standards B. Draft Land Use Plan Description of work completed. The work completed to date is contained in (1)the orange booklet, "Joint Planning Area Background Data,"August 30,1984 (2)the set of pages entitled"Joint Planning Area Background Area-Additions," September 5,1985 and(3)a series of Joint Planning Wall Maps which are listed in the Appendix given in the"Additions." Most of the background data needed for the plan development phase are included,with sections IA,IB,and ID being the most complete. Section IC(goals and objectives)still needs work. EMI