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This study is the result of that effort and is broken down into three main sections, DATA AND ANALYSIS, POLICY ANALYSIS, and IMPLEMENTATION PROGRAM. Section 1 analyzes and documents the data used as the basis for Rural Buffer policies. Section 2 addresses policies, plan proposals, and standards for issues relevant to the Rural Buffer and which guide private and governmental action . Finally, and most importantly, Section 3 addresses a coordinated set of specific measures and actions to be used in carrying out the policy of the Rural Buffer plan. Concurrent with the preparation of the study, a new Joint Planning Agreement was signed by Orange County and the Town of Chapel Hill on February 3, 1987. The agreement established within the Rural Buffer, the Chapel Hill Joint Development Area (CHJDA) which lies north of 1-40 and east of a north-south line adjacent to the eastern boundary of the Blackwood Division of Duke Forest. Within this area, Orange County standards and ordinances are in effect and the Town of Chapel Hill is granted courtesy review . Orange County may not vote to issue or deny a development permit until it has received the recommendations of Chapel Hill or until the expiration of forty-five (45) days after Chapel Hill has received the application, whichever occurs first. The new agreement becomes effective upon adoption of a zoning map and the Chapel Hill Land Development Ordinance by Orange County . The first draft of the Rural buffer Study was completed on February 27, 1987 and distributed to the Orange County Planning Board and Chapel Hill and Carrboro Planning Depart- ments for review . Following this review, a revision of the study was produced on March 4, 1987 . Major recommendations contained in the study include: 1 . Retain the two-acre minimum lot size requirement. 2. Retain the policy prohibiting extension of water and sewer facilities into the Rural Buffer except in emergency situations. 3. Delete Article 11 .7.2 of the Zoning Ordinance, Non- Conforming Lots. The amendment would allow owners of adjacent, undeveloped lots less than two (2) acres in size to develop their lots without combining them to create conforming lots. 4. Amend Article 4.2. 1 of the Zoning Ordinance, Rural Buffer (RB) Zoning District. The amendment would allow property owners of record in the Rural Buffer to create one lot for each child. Such lots would be exempt from RB dimensional requirements, but would conform to the dimensional requirements of the R-1 Residential zoning district.