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8 tti. ) - • Rev. 3/3/81 Rev. 5/1/81 NORTH CAROLINA ORANGE COUNTY • AGREEMENT This AGREEMENT, made and entered into this the day of 1981, by, between and among the COUNTY OF ORANGE, a political subdivision of the State of North Carolina, the TOWN OF CHAPEL HILL, and the TOWN OF CARRBORO, municipal corporations_duly created and existing under the laws of North Carolina, hereinafter for convenience referred to as a whole as "Governmental.Units'," and ORANGE WATER AND SEWERADTHORITY, a water and sewer authority created, organized and existing under the'lrovisions of the Water and Sewer Authorities Act contained in Chapter 162A of the General Statutes of North Carolina, hereinafter referred to as HOWASA";. • WITNES SETH. • That for and in consideration of the public benefits expected to flow from the cooperative efforts of the Governmental Units between and among themselves ' from the establishment of coordinated and comprehensive planning within their respective areas of public concern, said Governmental Units do hereby mutually agree as follows: Section 1, PURPOSE OF THE AGREEMENT. The purpose of this Agreement is to establish a method whereby coordinated and comprehensive planniTIF, may 1g": prnvided , for an Orange County-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Joint Planning Area aadalineatarl 6n the adopted Orange County Land Use Plan Map. • Section 2. CREATION OF JOINT PLANNING PROCESS. The Governmental Unite hereby establish a Joint Planning Process for the review of land development in the Orange County-Chapl Hill-Carrboro Joint Planning Area, Section. 3. DURATION. This Agreement shall be effective upon its executlon by the Governmental Units and shall continua thereafter until the day of 19 or until all but one of the Governmental Units have withdrawn. • At the termination data specified, this Agreement may he renewed for an additional specified period of time, upon mutual. agreement of all the Governmental. Units. Section 4. MUTUAL PROMISES AND CONCERNS. It is agreed that a mutual policy of good will i5 essential to this process- It is further agreed that the process • will be based-upon mutual adoption of land use plan and development standnrds by the Governmental Units for areas to be urbanized within a ten and twenty year patio: and those Joint Planning Areas that will remain rural during the nest twenty veer •• period (Rural. Buffer). It is further agreed that Orange Courtly will adopt ano apply development , standards in the Transition Areas (the ten and twenty year areas) as delineated on • the adopted Orange County Land Use Plan Map which meet or exceed Carrboro and Chape Hill development standards. These development standards will be defined and mutual adopted in a subsequent agreement. Upon the adoption of such regulations, additiaa, ! agreements will be adopted authorizing ()ranee County and the Towns of Chapel Hill e. •