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A . Land Use Plan Categories and Location Standards A list of Land Use Plan categories has been developed as well as a List of location standards for each of the plan categories . B . Draft Land Use Plan A Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan (text and map) has been formulated by integrating the following elements to allocate land uses and required acreages : natural environment , infrastructure and public services , joint planning operating principles , sociological characteristics , land use plan categories and Location standards . OTHER ELEMENTS IN THE JOINT PLANNING PROCESS I . Zoning Map After the Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan is completed , the next step will be to prepare a zoning map . The details of this process have not been formulated , but the process would involve translating Land use plan categories into zoning categories which specify certain uses at particular densities . II . Development Standards in the Transition Areas The Joint Planning Agreement, specifies that upon completion of the land use plan and zoning map , Orange County shell adopt on the Chapel side of the joint planning area Located within the ten and twenty year transition zones , "that portion . . .of the development standards of the Chapel HiLL side . " A similar provision exists in the Agreement which applies to Carrboro . The Planning Board of Orange County and Chapel Hill Chairs have agreed that development standards should be formulated for the transition areas which are unique for those areas , and not necessarily the same as those for the rest of Orange County or those for Chapel Hill . A good example can be found in the specifications for road standards . There could be a standard for roads in small subdivisions which is for somewhere between a 27 foot paved road with curb and gutter (Chapel Hill standard) and a 18—foot unpaved road (Orange County standard) . Public water and sewer, and paved roads with curb and gutter are characteristic of urban areas , while wells and septic tanks , and roads with no curb and gutter are characteristic of rural areas . The basic question to be decided is what standards are to be applied which prepare an area for annexation without imposing unreasonable burdens on those who wish to develop before public services are available? Work on these standards is to begin soon , subject to review and approval by the planning boards and governing bodies . However , the Land Use Plan should be adopted before the standards are adopted , as specified in the Joint Planning Agreement . 6