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) --- Taken from Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan • INTRODUCTION • Chapel Hill and Orange County entered into a Joint Planning Agreement in 1984 which called for the preparation of a Land Use Plan for the areas Immediately surrounding Chapel Hill and Carrboro, but outside of the extra-territorial planning Jurisdiction of the two towns. At the same time, Chapel Hill was also in the process of revising its 1977 Land Use Plan. These two efforts were pursued simultaneously, as a Land Use Plan for Chapel Hill and the Joint Planning Area. The work was undertaken by the staffs and Planning Boards of Chapel Hill and Orange County. Background Idata was collected and analyzed as the starting point for preparation of the plan. Hundreds of pages of text and tables along with dozens of maps were assembled. Though not a party to the Joint Planning I Agreement, Carrboro was also updating its Land Use Plan. participated In the preparation of this Land Use Plan. It also illIn an effort to promote public review of this information and stimulate public discussion about the issues, a Public Information meeting was held on November 13, 1985 . The meeting was structured around four major headings: Natural Environment ▪ Infrastructure and Public Services - Sociological Characteristics • Joint Planning Operating Principles The results of the meeting•. coupled with the background data and public hearings in January and April 1986 were merged to ill Planning Area Land Use Plan, recommended by the ChapelrHilleTowneCouncil on July, 14, 1986, partially adopted by the Orange County Board of Commissioners on August 19, 1986 and adopted in its entirety by both the IOrange County Board of County Commissioners and Chapel Hill Town Council . on October 13, 1986. • I I I I • U • I •