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21. <br /> extensions into the Rural Buffer; that Policy states, in pertinent <br /> part, as follows : <br /> "Public water and sewer facilities should be extended in <br /> accordance with the Land Use Element of the Orange County <br /> Comprehensive Plan. Such facilities will be encouraged, where <br /> they are available, in the Plan's Urban and Transition areas, <br /> and will be discouraged in Rural and Agricultural areas, <br /> except where their provision will enhance the rural character <br /> and provide for open space by allowing clustered development. " <br /> and, <br /> "Outside of Transition Areas, extension of water or sewer <br /> systems will only occur to provide service to an essential <br /> public facility, such as a school, or to remedy a public <br /> health emergency not otherwise correctable, such as a failing <br /> septic tank or failing package treatment plant( . ) ; " and, <br /> WHEREAS, the parties and the Towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro <br /> have agreed that the Piney Mountain Subdivision petition ought to <br /> be allowed, notwithstanding the limitations and policy preferences <br /> against public sewer extensions contained in the Joint Planning <br /> Area Land Use Plan, as specifically contemplated under the Orange <br /> County Water and Sewer Policy, as necessary to alleviate a public <br /> health emergency, but without thereby intending or effecting any <br /> modification or other limitation to the continuing effect of the <br /> Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan's restrictions on public sewer <br /> extensions or connections within the Rural Buffer; and <br /> 3 <br />