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ORANGE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Y O S ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date; December 1. 1986 Action A nda Item 40- SUBJECT: REVISIONS TO JOINT PLANNING AGREEMENT - CHAPEL HILL *************************************************************************** DEPARTMENT: PLANNING PUBLIC HEARING; Yes_X_No *************************************************************************** ATTACHMENTS: Revised Joint CONTACT: Marvin Collins Planning Agreement. TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough 732-8181 Chapel Hill 967-9251 Durham 688-7331 Mebane 227-2031 *************************************************************************** PURPOSE; To consider approval of proposed revisions to the Joint Planning Agreement between Orange County and the Town of Chapel Hill. To receive the Planning Board' s recommendation. NEED: In 1984. Orange County and Chapel Hill entered into a Joint Planning Agreement. Under the terms of the present agreement, the County and Town have been cooperatively developing a Land Use Plan for the Joint Planning Area and jointly approving development requests within 10 and 20-Year Transition Areas outside the Town' s planning jurisdiction. The Agreement has worked well overall, but there have been awkward situations and administrative problems in implementation. Over the past six months. discussion has occurred about possible revisions to address the difficulties. On October 13► a draft revision of the Joint Planning Agreement was presented at a joint meeting of the Board of County Commissioners and the Town Council. A public hearing on the revised Agreement was held November 18. 1986. IMPACT: The revised Agreement proposes a new distribution of responsibility between the County and Chapel Hill.