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:rte. <br /> 030 <br /> NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING <br /> ON <br /> PROPOSED REVISIONS TO THE <br /> ORANGE COUNTY-CHAPEL HILL--CARRBORO <br /> JOINT PLANNING LAND USE PLAN <br /> Pursuant to the requirements of the General Statutes of <br /> North Carolina, Chapter 153A, Sections 240, 323 and 343, <br /> Articles 2. 2. 12 and 2.2. 13 of the Orange County Zoning <br /> Ordinance, and Article 2, Section 2. 4, of a Joint Planning <br /> Agreement between Orange County and the Town of Chapel Hill, <br /> adopted in October, 1984, notice is hereby given that a <br /> public hearing will be held at the Carrboro Elementary School <br /> on Shelton Street in Carrboro, N. C. on Thursday, June 30, <br /> 1988, at 7:30 p. m. for the purpose of giving all interested <br /> citizens an opportunity to speak for or against proposed <br /> revisions to the Orange County-Chapel Hill--Carrboro Joint <br /> Planning Land Use Plan. <br /> The proposed amendments to the Joint Planning Land Use <br /> Plan are as follows: <br /> 1. Amend the Joint Planning Land Use Plan map and text to <br /> address changing land use and population patterns in <br /> Bingham Township, and in response to a five-year update <br /> schedule specified at the time of adoption of the Orange <br /> County Land Use Plan in 1981. Specific issues to be <br /> addressed include the potential for strip commercial <br /> development along N. C. Highway 54, the increasing <br /> attraction of new rural non-farm development because of <br /> the Township' s accessibility, the protection of water <br /> quality in the University Lake Watershed, the <br /> preservation of agriculture as an important economic <br /> activity and the effects of leapfrog development created <br /> by the establishment of the Rural Buffer zoning district <br /> adjacent to Chapel Hill and Carrboro. <br /> 2. Amend the Joint Planning Land Use Plan map and text to <br /> show the location of and describe the Rural Buffer and <br /> Transition Areas for the Chapel Hill and Carrboro Joint <br /> Development Review Areas as provided in the Joint <br /> Planning Agreement adopted November 2, 1987. <br /> 3. Amend the Joint Planning Land Use Plan map and text to <br /> move the northern boundary of the Transition Areas to a <br /> set distance of 670 feet from the property line of Duke <br /> Forest. The current boundary of the Transition Area <br /> follows property lines one lot depth removed from Duke <br /> Forest and varies from 210 feet to 2, 520 feet distance <br /> from the Duke Forest border. The proposed amendment is <br /> based in part on a request by Mr. E. K. Rowe, <br />