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7 ' subdivision within the area to be annexed. " D. PUBLIC HEARINGS 1. Land Use Plan Amendments a. JPA Land Use Plan - Expansion of Suburban Residential Land Use Classification b. JPA Land Use Plan - Boundary Designations for Transition Area and Rural Buffer 2 . Orange County-Carrboro Zoning Jurisdiction Boundary Presentation by Marvin Collins, Orange County Planning Director 1 Collins stated that Item la has to do with the expansion of the transition area. He pointed out on a map the first Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan taken to public hearing in August of 1986 and on another map the joint planning area plan that was adopted by Chapel Hill and Orange County in October of last year. The proposal for the expansion of the transition area would extend the line for the transition area to include approximately 1500 additional acres. The area would extend north from NC 86 and Buckhorn Branch to Duke Forest with some existing properties left between Duke Forest and the northern boundaries of the transition line. The map shows in orange the transition area that is being proposed which essentially is that which was presented at public hearing back in August of last year, excluding certain high density areas and also a major industrial center. By comparing the two maps the proposed expansion of the transition areas is evident. Collins continued that Item lb has to do with an actual designation of the transition area and rural buffer boundaries. Since the plan was adopted, there has been continued reference to the transition area versus the rural buffer. The orange area on the map, including interspersed green areas or resource conservation districts would constitute the transition area. The outer boundary of the orange area would be the transition area boundary line. Everything within it, as was pointed out by Alderperson Wegner, would be subject to the Town of Carrboro's jurisdiction if the County adopts their land development ordinances and zoning map. The rural buffer would be everything beyond that line and would encompass all the area shown in a cream color as well as the interspersed green areas which are Duke Forest and the Resource Conservation District. The grey areas on the map show the existing corporate limits as well as the existing extraterritorial areas. North of Carrboro the cross hatched areas represent two possible alternatives for jurisdictional exchange which Alderperson Wegner has already discussed. Collins then pointed to the maps that showed the same areas on the Carrboro zoning maps that were prepared by the Town of Carrboro for discussion purposes only and to show the range of possibilities. He pointed out the elongated orange colored area at the top oriented in a northwest-southeast direction as the existing Univeristy Lake watershed of approximately 1800 acres under Carrboro's jurisdiction. The lighter area just north of Carrboro's jurisdiction represented one end of the continuum and is based on an exchange using a density capacity of five units per acre. If that approach were used, 228 acres would be needed to accommodate the