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5 for 21 and 181 of those lots, respectively . During the same time span the average new lot size in major subdivisions decreased - from 2.88 to 1 .92 acres and new housing unit building permits issued increased from 60 to 99 permits. The trend is similar for the remainder of the Rural Buffer. In the portion of Chapel Hill township in Orange County 's planning jurisdiction subdivisions created 218 new lots in 1986, up from 76 lots two years earlier. The average lot size in new major subdivisions dropped from 3. 1 acres to 1 .58 acres during the same time. This growth is reflected in the population projections for the Joint Planning Area. The JPA Land Use Plan predicted an annual average growth of 2.75% between 1980 and the year 2000, increasing Chapel Hill Township' s population from 50,572 residents in 1980 to an estimated 86,973 residents in the year 2000. The unincorporated portion of the area should increase from 11 ,017 residents to 14,545 residents during that same time period, but annexation will remove a large part of land from unincorporated status, masking its true growth . The spatial pattern of development in the Rural Buffer is guided in part by the lack of public water and sewer service. The use of individual septic systems and wells requires larger lots and demands greater attention to environmental constraints than might otherwise be necessary . The Town of Hillsborough currently has no plans to extend water or sewer into the Rural Buffer. OWASA' s current policy is not to extend water or sewer into the Rural Buffer without concurrence of the Board of County Commissioners. A 16" water line owned by OWASA, though, runs along Old NC86 for the purpose of allowing Hillsborough to supply OWASA with water during drought conditions. With the completion of the OWASA pump station in the Calvander area, which will allow OWASA to supply Hillsborough, adequate pressure will exist to supply some of the Rural Buffer with water . The solid waste disposal site for the residents of the Rural Buffer, as well as most of the rest of Orange County, is the Orange Regional Landfill on Eubanks Road. Its remaining Iife has been projected at eight to twelve years. In 1984 the 169 acre "Green Tract," to the south of the current landfill , was jointly purchased by the county, Chapel Hill , and Carrboro, and designated on land use maps as a potential landfill site pending further study. Use of the Green Tract as a landfill site would entail the issuance of a special use permit and the holding of a public hearing. Alternatives such as incineration, a combination shredding/ landfill program, .and recycling, have been explored by the. Orange Regional 7t'ahaf YI i Task Force. Sanitary landfill , though, remains the most cost-effective method available to the county at this time. "Orthe Rural Buffer .cir aiationw system Components, roads are the Most important, but thi`dbuntci neither ` develops nor maintaiis roads. The North ^tarolina Department of