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ORANGE COUNTY 99 BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: April A.L. 1989 Action Agenda Item # 110-1- d"• SUBJECT: LUP-6-89 TOWN OF CARtBORO DEPARTMENT: Planning PUBLIC HEARING: X Yes No ATTACHMENT(S) : INFORMATION CONTACT: Joint Staff Report of 3/30/89 Marvin Collins, Extension 346 Carrboro Planning Board Recommendation of 3/30/89 TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Carrboro Board of Aldermen Hillsborough - 732-8181 Resolution of 3/1/88 Durham - 688-7331 Excerpt from Orange County Mebane - 227-2031 Natural Areas Inventory Chapel Hill - 967 -9251/968-4501 Excerpt from Duke Forest Study PURPOSE: To receive citizen comment on a proposed amendment to the Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan for Orange County, Chapel Hill and Carrboro. BACKGROUND: The Town of Carrboro has requested that the 400-foot Rural Buffer area located between Carrboro's Transition Area II and Duke Forest be removed and that the area be designated as Transition Area II on the Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan. The land in question is immediately south of the Duke Forest Blackwood Division on either side of N.C. Highway 86 and Eubanks Road. The area consists of approximately 135 acres. On May 4, 1987, the Board of Commissioners approved the extension of the Transition Area into the full extent of Bolin Creek basin north of Carrboro except in Duke Forest and for those properties abutting Duke Forest. The properties abutting Duke Forest would remain in the Rural Buffer. The Transition Area boundary which resulted was a very irregular line, varying in distance from 200 feet to 1,600 feet from Duke Forest. On August 16, 1988, the Board of Commissioners approved the relocation of the Transition Area boundary to a set distance of 400 feet from the Duke Forest border. The boundary relocation was initiated at the request of property owners. A consistent "buffer" dimension was sought through the amendment process. Since the approval of the 400-foot Rural Buffer area,