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JOINT PLANNING AGREEMENT <br /> • ' DRAFT <br /> • September 16, 1986 <br /> September 19. 1986 <br /> September 22. 1986 <br /> October 8r 1986 <br /> November 13r 1986 <br /> THIS AGREEMENT, made and entered into this day <br /> • of , 198_, by and between the COUNTY OP ORANGE, a <br /> political subdivision of the State of North Carolina, and THE <br /> TOWN OF CHAPEL HILL, a municipal corporation duly created and <br /> existing under the laws bf North Carolina. <br /> • WITNESSETH: <br /> In consideration of the public benefits expected <br /> to flow from the cooperative efforts of the parties in <br /> establishing a coordinated and comprehensive system of planning <br /> within their respective areas of public concern, the parties to <br /> this Agreement hereby mutually agree as follows: <br /> ARTICLE 1. PURPOSE, DEFINITIONS, EFFECTIVE DATE <br /> Section 1.1 Purpose of the Agreement <br /> The purpose of this Agreement is to establish a method <br /> of coordinated and comprehensive planning in the Orange <br /> • County-Chapel Hill Joint Planning Area, as defined herein. <br /> Section 1.2 Definitions <br /> A. Joint plannina Area. The area lying outside the <br /> extraterritorial planning jurisdiction of Chapel Hill but within <br /> the joint planning boundary designated on the Joint Planning Area <br /> Land Use Map, as it now exists and as it may be amended from time <br /> to time. <br /> B. Chapel Bill_ joint Development area (CHJDh) . The area•lying generally east of a division of the Joint Planning Area and <br /> shown as such on the copy of the Joint Planning Area Land Use Map <br /> attached to this Agreement, labeled Exhibit Ar and incorporated <br /> herein by reference. <br /> • <br /> C. Rural Buffer. The area designated on the Joint <br /> Planning Area Land Use Map as such and designated in the Joint <br /> Planning Area Land- Use Plan as Rural Residential. This area is <br /> further defined as being a low-density area consisting of <br /> • single-family homes situated on large lots having a minimum size <br /> of two (2) acres. The Rural Buffer is further defined as land <br /> which, although adjacent to an Urban or Transition area, is rural <br /> in character and which •will remain rural, contain low-density <br /> • residential uses and not require urban services (public utilities <br /> and other Town services) . <br /> D. Transition. The area designated on the Joint ' <br />