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-. • 105 along the property lines between Transition Area II and the Duke Forest properties. BACKGROUND: The Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan and Map serve as the basis for the implementation of the Joint Planning Agreement between Carrboro,Chapel Hill,and Orange County,including zoning and the regulation of future development in the Rural Buffer and Urban Transition Areas. Any amendment of the Joint Planning Land Use Plan Map requires a joint public hearing and the agreement of all three governing bodies. The Joint Planning Land Use Map describes two Urban Transition Areas north of Carrboro,into which the Town is expected to grow over the next ten to twenty years. The Transition Areas have Carrboro zoning and Carrboro is responsible for land use and building permit administration there. Beyond the Transition Areas, lands are to be left in a semi-rural state over the next twenty years,protected by County Rural Buffer designation and zoning, and County administration. County Rural Buffer zoning is basically residential,and requires two acres for a dwelling unit. Between the northern limit of the Carrboro Transition Area and the Duke Forest Blackwood Division,the joint Planning Area Land Use Map calls out a 400 foot strip of County Rural Buffer. That 400 foot"Rural Buffer buffer",totalling approximately 135 acres, was set up to buffer Duke Forest properties from the suburban residential development that is expected over the long term in the Carrboro Transition Area. The Rural Buffer buffer against Duke Forest means that properties located in that area are effectively within two different jurisdictions. Owners of those properties must seek approval from both Carrboro and from the County in order to subdivide their properties and develop them; and must meet Carrboro standards on the Carrboro Transition Area portion,and County standards on the Rural Buffer portion. This has proven to be a very difficult and complicated process for the staffs and for the property owners. Recently,the County has proposed to change the text of the Public Interest District MID)zoning designation which is presently on the Duke Forest properties north of the Carrboro Transition Area. The County PID is proposed to be split into two PID zones. PID-I areas are not expected to be developed for 20 years. The PID-I district would permit research forest activities, residential development on 11.5 acre lots,and some mixed uses involving historic structures. Near Carinboro's Transition Area, the P1D-I would be placed on the portion of Duke Forest north of Eubanks Road on both sides of Old NC 86,where there are natural areas of particular significance. The PID-II district is proposed to be similar,although the residential densities proposed to be permitted would be one unit per 5 acres, and development is expected within the next 5 to 10 years. The PID-II designation is proposed to be placed on the portion of Duke Forest south of Eubanks Road. 2