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1 ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: June 5, 1989 Action Agenda Item # SUBJECT: LUP-6-89 TOWN OF CARRBORO DEPARTMENT: Planning PUBLIC HEARING: Yes _X_No ATTACHMENT(S) : INFORMATION CONTACT: (Refer to April 6, 1989 Public Planning Director - Extension 346 Hearing Agenda for Application and Staff Report) TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough - 732-8181 - Recommendations of Governing Durham - 688-7331 and Advisory Boards Mebane - 227-2031 JPA Public Hearing Minutes Chapel Hill - 967-9251/968-4501 of 4/6/89 - Draft Planning Board Minutes of 5/15/89 PURPOSE: To consider 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.