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ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING DEPARTMENT 306F REVERE ROAD HILLSBOROUGH. NORTH CAROLINA 27278 (. 86 4e Nos 11 • "g • Dear Property Owner. A public hearing will be held on Thursday, April 6, 1989 at 7:30 p.m. at Phillips Junior High School on Estes Drive in Chapel Hill. This public hearing is being held to consider five items relating to the Orange County/Chapel Hill/Carrboro Joint, Planning Land I E Plan. Th'e Joint Planning Area is located north and west of the Chapel Hill/Carrboro corporate limits, and the Joint Land se Plan requires public hearing before the Orange County Board of Commissioners, the Chapel Hill Town Council, the Carrboro Town Council and the Orange County Planning Board. The:items to be considered at this public hearing are summarized below.. Your property has been identified as being within ,5,t2Q•feet of me of the areas al shown below. JOINT PLANNING AREA LAND USE PLAN AMENDMENTS There are three proposed amendments to the Joint Planning Land Mae Plan. Amendments to the Land Use Plan do not automatically change the zoning of property, but do open the door for different zones to be requested and applied in the future. 1. A proposal has been received by Envirotek, Inc. of Raleigh N.C. to redesignate 424.4 acres of land located in Chapel Hill Township on the western half of the Interstate 40 • interchange with New Hope Church Road (please see site #1 on attached map). This proposal would create a new Commercial Transition Activity Node on 159 acres of land, and would also change the land use designation on 265 acres to Agricultural- Residential. Currently, the Joint Land Use Plan classifies both these areas as Rural Buffer. The proposed amendment would permit zoning changes that could allow non- residential land uses and higher residential densities. Currently, the Rural Buffer , designation allows only residential uses with a minimum lot size of two acres, and certain non-residential uses. 2. A proposal has been received by Cazwell, Inc. to redesignate 1.45 acres of land in Chapel Hill Township on the Durham/Orange County line, located on the east side of Kerley Road (please see site #2 on attached map). This land is a small part of the tract that now contains the 24-acre Montvale subdivision - which has an average lot size of 30,000 square feet and lies mainly in Durham County. The portion of the subdivision in Durham County has'sewer service from the City of Durham. This amendment would redesignate the 1.45 acres in Orange County to Ten Year Transition from its current designation of Rural Buffer. Under the current Rural Buffer designation, lots must be at least two acres in size. The Ten Year Transition designation that is proposed would allow the portion in Orange County to be consistent with that in Durham County. 3. The Town of Carrboro has requested that the Joint Land Use Plan be amended to delete a 400-foot buffer located between the 'Carrboro Transition Area II', as defined in the Plan, and the Blackwood Division of Duke Forest (please see site #3,4 on attached ' map). Currently, this strip of land is designated and zoned as Rural Buffer. The Town of Carrboro is requesting that the 400-foot buffer be removed and that the land be redesignated as 'Carrboro Transition Area II", consistent with the adjacent land to •