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JOINT PLANNING AGREEMENT <br /> • DRAFT <br /> September 16,. 1986 <br /> September 19, 1986 <br /> September 22. 1986 <br /> October 8, 1986 • <br /> * • November 13. 1986 <br /> • <br /> • THIS AGREEMENT, made and entered into this day - <br /> of • r 198 by and between the COUNTY OF 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 of North Carolina. <br /> WITNESSETH: <br /> - - <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 /> - <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 Planning 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. Tall. ,:Joint. Development Area ,(CH3DA) . The area <br /> ' ' 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 A, and incorporated <br /> herein by reference. . <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 />