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- •- PETITION TO AMEND JOINT PLANNING LAND USE PLAN WHEREAS, the Orange county Board of Commissioners adopted the Oran County-Chapel Hill -Carrboro Joint Planning Land Use Plan on October 13, 1986; and WHEREAS, the Joint Planning Land Use Plan contains a land use classification of Rural Residential and describes said classification as a low-density area consisting of single-family homes situated on large lots two acres in size or greater ; and x WHEREAS, Orange County has required compliance with the two-acre lot size standard through application of its Subdivision Regulations; and WHEREAS, Orange County conducted a public hearing on November 24, 1986, for the purpose of amending its Zoning Ordinance and Zoning Atlas to conform with the Joint Planning Land Use Plan , including the establishment of a Rural Buffer (RB) zoning district and dimensional requirements applicable therein ; and WHEREAS, the two-acre minimum lot substantially increases the cost of housing and is therefore directly contrary to any intention the county has of providing affordable housing; and WHEREAS, the two-acre minimum lot imposes hardship on the majority of land owners, most of whom have struggled for many years to pay for their land and the taxes thereon , and would like to use the land for their children or realize some benefit to themselves rather than lose the value thereof ; and WHEREAS, the two-acre minimum lot standard makes the extension of public water and sewer lines to new developments uneconomic , thereby encouraging the use of septic tanks and wells, both of which are already causing increasing health and sanitation problems; and WHEREAS, as more and more people settle in the county, public water and sewer will of necessity have to be extended to both old and new lots at a cost that will be devastating if lots are large ; and WHEREAS, there are other ways to obtain open space such as public parks and cluster developments with dedicated open space ; and WHEREAS, the two-acre minimum standard has made most of the platted lots in the Rural Buffer (RB) zoning non-conforming and therefore less valuable since fiduciary institutions have reservations about making loans on non-conforming property; and WHEREAS, under the present two acre standard, existing structures on non-conforming lots, if damaged by catastrophe , might not be rebuildable in a manner suitable to the owner's needs: THE FOLLOWING RESIDENTS AND PROPERTY OWNERS LIVING WITHIN THE PROPOSED RURAL BUFFER (RB) ZONING DISTRICT AND ELSEWHERE IN ORANGE COUNTY RESPECTFULLY REQUEST THAT THE ORANGE COUNTY ROARn OF r_PMMMTcciru,Iroc �....... -