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Ai/157/4 ORANGE COUNTY HILLSBOROUGH NORTH CAROLINA anaaes's C ie�e s 'isru.l 1752 May 19, 1989 Mr. Robert Morgan, Town Manager Town of Carrboro 301 West Main Street Carrboro, North Carolina 27510 Dear Bob: At its May 16, 1989 meeting, the Orange County Board of Commissioners considered a proposed Carrboro Land Use Ordinance text amendment. The proposed amendment would require a 100-foot undisturbed setback along all Carrboro Transition Area II property bordering lands designated Public/Private Open Space on the Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan. As you are aware, the proposed amendment is related to two Carrboro requests. The first is to amend the Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan to change the designation of a 400-foot strip of Rural Buffer adjacent to Duke Forest to Transition Area II. The second is to rezone the 400-foot strip from Orange County Rural Buffer to Carrboro Rural Residential. The proposed amendment to the Carrboro Land Use Ordinance is contingent upon the Board of Commissioners approval of both requests. They will be considered by the Board at its June 5, 1989 meeting. While the Board of Commissioners did not object to the proposed amendment due to inconsistency ' istency with the Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan, it g did express on c cern ou ab t the 100-foot buffer concept. A similiar proposal was presented - at public. hearing recently by Orange County. It drew considerable opposition from property owners adjoining Public Interest Districts where the 100-foot buffer would be required. Specific concerns identified at the County hearing were as follows: 1. The application of buffer requirements to adjoining property but not the the site to be protected; and 2. The desire of "public interest" properties to be treated