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calculated land need acreage of 2172. The Rural Buffer, extends from the western boundary of the Town's planning jurisdiction to western boundary of the University Lake watershed. To the north, Rural Buffer extends to New Hope Road and includes most of the major Duke Forest tracts in Chapel Hill - Township. It is this area that is proposed to serve as the outer boundary of the Joint Planning Area, with the Town's corporate limits serving as the inner boundary. The remaining areas in the Township are classified as Rural Residential . Areas classified in this way are appropriate for rural density non-farm housing development. The overall land pattern which will evolve from this distribution of plan categories has certain characteristics which are important. Those Activity nodes south of the Duke Forest tracts and directly north of the Town's planning jurisdictions, are capable of sustaining more intensive commercial and residential development than other nodes in the Township. These nodes represent the core elements of a transition area between the urbanizing area focused on Chapel Hill-Carrboro and the rural area to the north. This area is in a process of transition from rural level densities and characteristics to urban level densities, including the need for urban services such as centralized sewage treatment. The Duke Forest Lands, as a group, form a band across the north central part of the Township generally separating the rural area from the transition area. Thus, the integrity of the Duke Forest tracts are an important aspect of the developing land pattern in the Township. In the Town of Chapel Hill the following are existing and proposed Activity Centers (See Appendix A for more detail description) : Existing 1) Chapel Hill Downtown (CBD) .2) Town and Country 3) University Mall-Kroger