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DRAFT OUTLINE OF AGREEMENT IN PRINCIPLE FOR DISCUSSION BY JOINT PLANNING/ <br /> WATERSHED WORK GROUP <br /> 1/21/87 <br /> 4:30 <br /> Carrboro Town Hall 00 4 <br /> Carrboro, Chapel Hill, and Orange County agree to proceed as follows: <br /> 1. Commission a water supply watershed study covering University Lake <br /> and Cane Creek; study to consider among other things, the means of <br /> protection to be used in these areas (clustering, water and sewer <br /> extension policy, annexation policy, etc.) ; committee with equal <br /> representation from each elected" board, and technical advisory <br /> group to participate in definition and decisions concerning study <br /> 2. Commission/undertake rural buffer study, to include standards <br /> and means of maintenance (such as water and sewer extension policy, <br /> clustering, impact fees, annexation policy, funding for acquisition <br /> of open space, etc.) <br /> 3. Review by staff and planning boards of County and Carrboro ordinances <br /> in water supply watersheds to determine need for changes to bring <br /> into conformity <br /> 4. All agree to enter into joint planning agreement as soon as possible <br /> 5. All agree to review status of OWASA and relationship of OWASA to <br /> elected boards and respective jurisdictions <br /> b,. All agree to work to develop effective system of conservation easeme:uts <br /> for use to protect watershed and rural buffer areas <br /> 7. County to go to public hearing on moving transition area line <br /> north of Carrboro back to its earlier position (giving Carrboro <br /> larger transition area to north to reduce pressure on watershed); <br /> County also to go to hearing considering advisability of supporting <br /> change in extraterritorial jurisdiction lines to swap area now in <br /> watershed for equivalent area (based on capacity) north of town <br /> boundary; Chapel Hill to support both proposals; Chapel Hill and <br /> Carrboro request hearing to be held 2/17 or 2/23 <br /> 8. Carrboro to defer action on density changes in University Lake <br /> watershed until County resolves its position (or until watershed stay compl: <br /> Chapel <br /> 9. Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and County agree ree thatjoint/courtesy H /ceyro <br /> will be established in the northern rural buffer area between eI-40 a•ida <br /> line _used4on tentative County-Chapel Hill joint agreement map <br /> 10. Carrboro to defer requesting water and sewer extensions into Univers _ty <br /> Lake watershed until watershed study is complete <br /> 11. Chapel. Hill and Carrboro to agree not to annex into the rural buffer <br /> or into each others' transition areas (either voluntary or involunta--y <br /> annexation) <br /> 12. Carrboro to agree not to annex into watershed extraterritorial <br /> jurisdiction pending completion of watershed study <br /> 13. Pending projects subject to review by Carrboro to be considered with eye to <br /> watershed questions raised, and to legal requirements and equity issLes <br /> County and Chapel Hill positions may continue to be taken by rt,oa,. nvAnA <br />