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61(1/A7 <br /> 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 /> THIS AGREEMENT, made and entered into this 3)day <br /> of Febry , 1982, 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 /> 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 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 Bilk, Joint peyelopment gLaa, (CHJDA) . 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. Agricultural, <br /> Public/Private Open Space, Resource Conservation. <br /> Extractive/Disposal Use and the overlay district designated Water <br /> Quality Critical Area. This area is further defined as being a <br /> low-density area consisting of single-family homes situated on <br /> large lots having a minimum size of two (2) acres. The Rural <br /> Buffer is further defined as land which. although adjacent to an <br /> Urban or Transition area. is rural in character and which will <br /> remain rural, contain low-density residential uses and not <br /> require urban services (public utilities and other Town <br />