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MEML 1 O R A N G E C O U N T Y BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date May 19, 1987 Action da Item SUBJECT: PROPOSED JPA LAND USE PLAN TEXT AMENDMENT ACTION BY: May 19, 1987 DEPARTMENT: PLANNING PUBLIC HEARING Yes X No ATTACHMENT( S) : INFORMATION CONTACT: Gene Bell Citizen Petitions JPA Land Use Plan Text 4-27-87 Planning Board Minutes 3-10-87 Public Hearing Minutes 4-13-87 Memo to Chapel Hill Council from Town Manager TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough - 732-8181 Durham - 688-7331 Mebane - 227-2031 Chapel HiII - 968-4501 PURPOSE: Consideration of the two-acre minimum lot size standard for the Rural Buffer as set forth in the Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan . BACKGROUND: On October 13, 1986, the Orange County Board of Commis- sioners and the Chapel Hill Town Council adopted the Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan. Denoted on the Plan map and in the text residential use gy, described s low-density 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 stan- dard in the Rural Buffer from "one dwelling unit per two acres" to "one dwelling per acre" . Subsequently, a joint public hearing was Town public comment on Chapel plr for . The purpose