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• 115 10 • Carrboro Job fanning Transition Area Zoning r— Background • On September 22, 1987 an intergovernmental working group made up of eight elected officials from Orange County,Carrboro,and Chapel Hill • endorsed an agreement to establish a method for coordinated and comprehensive planning in areas north of both towns. The joint Planning Agreement sets out a method for planning and regulation of future development in a Joint Planning Area by all three parties. • The Joint Planning Area is defined in Orange County's Joint Planning Land Use Plan and Map,and is split into two sections: the Carrboro Joint Planning Area,located roughly between Carrboro's northern extraterritorial planning area limits and Eubanks Road,and the Chapel Hill Joint Planning Area, generally between Chapel Hill's northern extraterritorial area limits and Interstate-40. The Land Use Plan envisions that suburban residential development(at a density between two and five dwelling units per acre) will occur in the future in the area nearest the towns,and that rural residential development(at densities no greater than one dwelling unit per acre)will occur in the area farther out Finally,the Land Use Plan defines a Rural Buffer area outside the towns'Joint Planning Areas,in which allowable _ densities would not exceed one unit per two acres. Under the terms of the Agreement,Carrboro's Joint Planning Area is divided into two sections: Joint Plmmtng Transition Area I and Transition Area II. The Agreement stipulates that Transition Area I must be developed to a specified density before Transition Area II may be zoned for densities higher than one dwelling unit(DU)per acre. Althought the Agreement defines Transition Area II,the County's Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan and Map must be amended to include it These amendments are to be considered at the same time as the other changes to the Plan and Map that are needed in order to implement the Agreement As illustrated in Figure 1,Carrboro's Joint Planning Area includes approximately 4.0 square miles of land lying within the Bolin Creek drainage basin,and bounded on the west by Old NC 86 and Dairyland and Union Grove Church Roads. Bolin Creek serves as the general boundary between T ransiti on Areas I and I I with Transitio n Area I located directly north of the town's northern extraterritorial area limits,and Transition Area II generally north of Bolin Creek and south of Duke Forest • . i .