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ORANGE COUNTY 007 BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: March 10, 1987 Action Agenda I tem# SUBJECT: PROPOSED JPA LAND USE PLAN TEXT AMENDMENT (TWO ACRE MINIMUM LOT SIZE STANDARD) *************************************************************************** DEPARTMENT: PLANNING PUBLIC HEARING: X Yes No ATTACHMENTS : CONTACT: Marvin Collins Citizen Petitions; Joint Planning TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Area Land Use Plan Text. Hillsborough 732-8181 Chapel Hill 967-9251 Durham 688-7331 Mebane 227-2031 *************************************************************************** PURPOSE : To receive citizen comment on a proposed amendment to the Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan. NEED: On October 13, 1986, the Orange County Board of Commissioners and the Chapel Hill Town Council adopted the Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan . Denoted on the Plan map and in the text was a residential land use category, described as a low-density area of single-family homes on large lots of at least two acres in size. To conform the Orange County Zoning Ordinance ( and Atlas) with the Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan, a public hearing was held on November 24, 1986 . The purpose of the hearing was to consider- a proposed Rural Buffer (RB) zoning district and accompanying dimensional requirements, including a two-acre minimum lot size requirement. On January 5, 1987, the Board of Commissioners adopted the RB zoning district designation and dimensional requirements applicable therein . At the same meeting, petitions with 643 signatures were received, requesting that the Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan be amended to reduce the lot size standard in the Rural Buffer from "one dwelling unit per two acres" to "one dwelling per acre" . Section 2.4 of the Joint Planning Agreement indicates that proposed amendments to the Land Use Plan shall not become effective until approved by