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. , <br /> _.. . . <br /> SUMMARY OF INFORMATION ON JOINT PLANNING 91 <br /> DESCRIPTION OF THE JOINT PLANNING AGREEMENT <br /> IPThe Joint Planning Area Is an area outside the extraterritorial <br /> planning jurisdictions of the Towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro, but <br /> within the Joint Planning Area boundary as shown on the Orange County IP <br /> map entitled "Land Use Plan." The current Joint Planning Agreement is a <br /> formal agreement between Orange County and Chapel Hill and includes the <br /> following provisions: <br /> IP( 1 ) ,( , <br /> AtHndarde_ <br /> The Orange County Land Use Plan, zoning ordinannce, and <br /> subdivision ordinance shall remain in effect in the entire Joint Planning <br /> Area until amended as described In the agreement. <br /> (2) tosasterwtive d® Innn,an+ <br /> Orange County and Chapel Hill shall develop a land iuse�plan and zoning <br /> map to be applicable in the ten and twenty year transition zones shown <br /> on the County Land Use Plan map. <br /> (3) . • . . , 4. 1 I . • _ - . . 1I , . <br /> Upon completion of the land use plan and �zonin ma , ' <br /> adopt, on the Chapel Hill side of the Joint Planning Areaglocatedywithin Is to <br /> the ten and twenty year transition zones, that portion of the land use <br /> plan. zoning map and development standards of the Chapel Hill <br /> development ordinance which shall be applicable to the Chapel Hill side. <br /> (4) > er_jlrovlalnne p¢ the nertraengn�F ' <br /> ere review process in the rural buffer zones of thehJointiPlanning Areatand <br /> in the extraterritorial zoning jurisdiction of the Town. <br /> of the agreement address such things as the administrations ofrtthes <br /> agreement, including the handling of development proposals in the ten <br /> and twenty year transition zones, and the <br /> a <br /> If <br /> greement. For example, the agreement specifies rea for nenaipr the <br /> process for development proposals in the transition zones <br /> eswhichmeans <br /> that both the County Commissioners and the Town Council must approve or <br /> deny Projects .in those transition areas. <br /> Though not a formal party to the Joint Planning Agreement. the Town <br /> of Carrboro expressed Its desire to be involved in the preparation of <br /> the Land 'Use Plan and zoning Map. The Town also expressed an interest <br /> in becoming a party to the agreement upon adoption of the Land Use Plan, <br /> Zoning Map and development standards. <br /> On the following pages more details are iven about each of the <br /> first three provisions of the agreement as specified above. <br /> ORANGE COUNTY LAND USE PLAN AND DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS <br /> Orange County contains seven townships, including <br /> Township which udin Ch <br /> lies in the southeastern g county. Hill <br /> Chapel Hill and Carrboro Ile in Chapel Hill Township and the nttownship <br /> P <br /> I! <br /> 2 <br /> 1 <br />