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117 RURAL BUFFER STUDY POPULATION 6 FEBRUARY 87 I . QUANTITATIVE DATA Population projections for Chapel Hill Township, as presented in the current Joint Planning Land Use Plan, are presented in Table 1 . Also presented below are the projected populations of the unincorporated portion of Chapel Hill Township between 1980 and 2000, using the projections provided in the Joint Planning Land Use Plan . The figures imply heavy annexation between 1985 and 1990, with the township population increasing 14% while the population in the unincorporated portion of the township decreases 8% . Lesser amounts of annexation are implied between 1990 and 1995 and between 1995 and 2000. TABLE 1 : POPULATION ESTIMATES FOR CHAPEL HILL TOWNSHIP AND ITS UNINCORPORATED PORTION YEAR TOWNSHIP UNINCORP. PORTION 1980 50, 572 11 ,017 1985 61 , 415 16,271 1990 70, 187 14,936 1995 77 , 620 15, 187 2000 86,973 14, 545 Exact JPA population figures do not exist because the population figures in the Joint Planning Land Use Plan follow a different geographic boundary than the rest of the plan . Chapel Hill Township is used as the population base. Census block and enumeration district boundaries do not reflect the JPA, but their use can provide a more accurate reflection of population in the JPA than currently exists. Enumeration district boundaries alter the current population boundary by removing two portions of Chapel Hill Township outside the JPA; north of the Rural Buffer east of University Station Road and north of Davis Road; and adding a portion of Bingham Township bounded by Davis Road, Orange Grove Road, Dodsons Crossroads, NC54, and Chapel Hill Township . As Table 1 indicates, the difference in population between Chapel Hill Township and the revised boundary is small . Estimates of growth in the University Lake watershed are made easier, however, by the inclusion of most of the Bingham Township portion of the watershed into the population boundary area .