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3 main provisions of the agreement. The revised Agreement proposes a new distribution of responsibility between Orange County and Chapel Hill which will eliminate some of the administrative difficulties encountered with the present agreement. He made reference to the Land Use Plan which was adopted by Chapel Hill and Orange County at the meeting held on October 13, 1986 along with the text of the plan. Upon approval of this agreement, Chapel Hill will prepare a zoning map for the transition area employing their zoning district classification and development standards. This map will be submitted to Orange County for their consideration. Upon approval of this map, the Zoning Atlas and Zoning Ordinance will be amended to incorporate that map and the Chapel Hill development standards into the Orange County Ordinance. Following adoption of the map and the development standards, Orange County will administer its ordinances, development standards, and Zoning Atlas designations in the rural buffer portion of the Joint Planning Area. Within the transition area, the Town of Chapel Hill will handle development applications including major subdivisions, planned developments and special use permits. Orange County would continue to review and comment on development applications within those transition areas and also within the Towns extraterritorial jurisdiction. Likewise, Chapel Hill would have an opportunity to review and comment on development applications within the rural buffer. He explained the procedure for considering and approving amendments to the s! Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan or to the Orange County Zoning including the Zoning Atlas. He made reference to the comments from the Town of Carrboro and noted that agreement had been reached on everything except the Land Use Plan. COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS FROM THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OR PLANNING BOARD County Attorney Geoffrey Gledhill explained that the Agreement does not contain any of the particular division of responsibility within Orange County or Chapel Hill that previous drafts contained. Procedures will be determined administratively by Orange County and the Towns. In answer to a question from Planning Board member Sharlene Pikley, Collins explained that the County would be given an opportunity to make comments on any development application within the current entre- territorial jurisdiction and within Chapel Hill's transition areas. Also Orange County would be given the right to comment just as they would be given the same right to review and comment on any development application within the rural buffer. The County will maintain control over any amendments to the Zoning Plan and Map which will allow those who live in the transition area to have a voice before the Board of Commissioners. In answer to a question from Barry Jacobs about density in the transition area, Collins noted that the Agreement does specify that the zoning map which Chapel Hill submits to the County must coincide with the approved Joint Area Land Use Plan. PUBLIC COMMENTS Roy Williford, Carrboro Planning Director, made reference to the review of the areas outside of the transition area and clarified that it was not meant to exclude the term rural buffer but merely a rewrite of section 2 .4 of the agreement received earlier in the month. He referred to the Land Use Plan and asked if Exhibit A is the same and where the lines are drawn in terms of the lines which are currently being negotiated by the committee of three. He asked the location of the urban transition line and if the land uses themselves would ever be amended. Geoffrey Gledhill explained that Exhibit A will serve as the Land Use Plan with the delineating lines - transition, rural buffer and the dividing line between Chapel Hill area of influence as it has already designated and the Carrboro area as it has already been designated.