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• • 56 SUMMARY OF INFORMATION ON JOINT PLANNING DESCRIPTION OF THE JOINT PLANNING AGREEMENT The Joint Planning Area is an area outside the extraterritorial planning jurisdictions of the Towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro, but within the Joint Planning Area boundary as shown on the Orange County map entitled "Land Use Plan." The current Joint Planning Agreement Is a formal agreement between Orange County and Chapel Hill and Includes the following provisions: • ( 1 ) jnittai use of Orange County Lan.d Use Plan and development standards_ The Orange County Land Use Plan, zoning ordinance, and subdivision ordinance shall remain in effect in the entire Joint Planning Area until amended as described in the agreement. . (2) Cooperative development of k Ind use pJpp and zoning map . Orange County and Chapel HiII shall develop a land use plan and zoning map to be - applicable In the ten and twenty year transition zones shown on the County Land Use Plan map. (3) Adpptjpn_of pey flevejppment standards In the transition preps... Upon completion of the land use plan and zoning map. Orange County Is to adopt, on the Chapel Hillside of the Joint Planning Area located within the ten and twenty year transition zones. that portion of the land use plan, zoning map and development standards of the Chapel Hill development ordinance which shall be applicable to the Chapel Hill side. • (4) Qther_nrovisrons_of_ the agreement. There will be a courtesy review process In the rural buffer zones of the Joint Planning Area and in the extraterritorial zoning jurisdiction of the Town. Other portions ' , of the agreement address such things as the administration of the agreement, including the handling of development proposals in the ten and twenty year transition zones, and the procedure for amending the agreement. For example, the agreement specifies a joint approval process for development proposals in the transition zones which means that both the County Commissioners and the Town Council must approve or deny projects In those transition areas. Though not a formal party to the Joint Planning .Agreement, the Town of Carrboro expressed its desire to be involved In the preparation of the Land Use Plan and Zoning Map. The Town also expressed an interest In becoming a party to the agreement upon adoption of the Land Use Plan, Zoning Map and development standards. J On the following pages more details are given about each of the first three provisions of the agreement as specified above. ORANGE COUNTY LAND USE PLAN AND DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS • including Chapel Hill Orange County contains seven townships,Township which lies in the southeastern portion of the county. Both ChaPel Hill and Carrboro lie in Chapel Hill Township and the township • • • 2