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• <br /> • <br /> OUTLINE OF AGREEMENT IN PRINCIPLE <br /> PROPOSED BY JOINT PLANNING/WATERSHED WORK GROUP, 1/21/87 <br /> Carrboro, Chapel Hill and Orange County agree to proceed as <br /> follows: • <br /> 1. Commission a study of the water supply watershed carrying <br /> capacity of University Lake and Cane Creek; study to <br /> consider among other things, the means of protection to be <br /> used in these areas (clustering, water and sewer extension <br /> policy, annexation policy, etc. ) ; committee with equal <br /> representation from each elected board, and technical <br /> advisory group to participate in definition and decisions <br /> concerning study. <br /> 2 . Commission/undertake rural buffer study, to include stan- <br /> dards and means of maintenance (such as water and sewer <br /> extension policy, clustering, impact fees, annexation <br /> policy, funding for acquisition of open space, etc. ) . <br /> 3 . Review by staff and planning boards of County and Carrboro <br /> ordinances in water supply watersheds to determine need for <br /> changes to bring into conformity. <br /> 4 . All agree to enter into joint planning agreement as soon as <br /> possible. <br /> 5. All agree to review status of OWASA and relationship of <br /> OWASA to elected boards and respective jurisdictions. <br /> 6 . All agree to work to develop effective system of conserva- <br /> tion easements for use to protect watershed and rural buffer <br /> areas. <br /> 7. County to go to public hearing on moving transition area <br /> line north of Carrboro back to its earlier position (giving <br /> Carrboro larger transition area to north to reduce pressure <br /> on watershed) ; County also to go to hearing considering <br /> advisability of supporting change in extraterritorial <br /> jurisdiction lines to swap area now in watershed for equiva- <br /> lent area (based on capacity) north of town boundary; Chapel <br /> Hill to support both proposals; Chapel Hill and Carrboro <br /> request hearing to be held 2/23. <br /> 8 . Carrboro to defer action on density changes in University <br /> Lake watershed until County resolves its position (or until <br /> watershed study completed) . <br /> 9 . Chapel Hill, Carrboro and County agree that Chapel <br /> Hill/Carrboro joint/courtesy review area will be established <br /> in the northern rural buffer area between 1-40 and line used <br /> on tentative County-Chapel Hill joint agreement map. <br />