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• <br /> 90 <br /> --- Taken from Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan <br /> I . <br /> INTRODUCTION <br /> • <br /> Chapel Hill and Orange County ,entered into .a Joint Planning Agreement in <br /> 1984 which called for the preparation of a Land Use Plan for the areas <br /> immediately surrounding Chapel Hill and Carrboro, but outside of the <br /> extra-territorial planning jurisdiction of the two towns. At the same <br /> time, Chapel Hill was also in the process of revising its 1977 Land Use <br /> Plan. <br /> These two efforts were pursued simultaneously, as a Land Use Plan for <br /> Chapel Hill and the Joint Planning Area. The work. was undertaken by the <br /> staffs and Planning Boards of Chapel Hill and Orange County. Background <br /> data was collected and analyzed as the starting point for preparation of <br /> the plan.. Hundreds of pages of text and tables along with dozens of <br /> maps were assembled. Though not a party to the Joint Planning <br /> Agreement, Carrboro was also updating Its Land Use Plan. it also <br /> participated in the preparation of this Land Use Plan. <br /> In an effort to promote public review of this information and stimulate <br /> public discussion about the issues, a Public Information meeting was <br /> held on November 13, 1985. The meeting was structured around four major <br /> headings: <br /> - Natural Environment <br /> - Infrastructure and Public Services <br /> - Sociological Characteristics <br /> - Joint Planning Operating Principles • <br /> The results of the meeting, coupled with the background data and public <br /> hearings in January and April 1986 were merged to produce the . Joint <br /> Planning :Area Land Use Plan, recommended by the Chapel Hill Town Council <br /> on July. 14, 1986, partially adopted by the Orange County Board of <br /> Commissioners on August 19, 1986 and adopted in its entirety by both the <br /> Orange County Board of County Commissioners and Chapel Hill Town Council <br /> on October 13, 1986. <br /> • <br /> i . <br /> I . <br />