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014 • . _ iEEitorv•of Joint Planning During the 1950s and 1 g6Os the North Caro1itia State Legislature granted Chapel Hill and the right to enact zoning ordinances and regulations kir certain designated areas surrounding the Towns. These desisted areas are known as extraterritorial pkuning juridieuon (ETD. Each Tom adopts zoning and controls develapmerit of land within its respective ET's. During tiii$period of time, land located outside of Chapel Hill's or Corn's corporate limits and planning jurisdictions was zoned and controlleid by Orange County. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, urban growth began to occur outside of Chapel till's and C pores}s corporate limits and ETI, In particular} growth bed to occur north of Chapel Hill's ETA boundary, and Orange County had begun to approve developments outside of Chapci Hill's planning j urisdi cti on that would eventually he sexed into the Town's corporate limits (e.g. Tim erl ubdi on). A philosophy for joint planning emerged EIS an opportunity to provide Chapel Hill are a OTO with some planning and zoning control over future growth areas outside each Town's ETL Joint planning also provided the opportunity for the County to retain some zoning control over these -o 1. are while also setting a limit for urban sprawl and providing a transition from an urban to a r environment (the rural buffer). In general, the purpose of joint planning is to providc a method for coordinated and comprehensive planning for areas that are of interest to all three jurisdictions. • Development of n J dnt PI uu a; In 1 984, the T of Chap1 Hill and Orangc County entered into a Joint Planning Agreement that ualled for the development of a Land Ltse Plan for the areas immediately surrounding Chapel Hill and Carrboro, but located. outside the ETD boundaries of the two town . Thew was.0416:10 of each Town's Tespectiv corporate limits and planning jurisdiction were'mow as Joint Planning "Transition Areas_" Initially, the Town of Coro was riot a pEurty to the Joint Planning Agreement, • . . 'Th0 staffs and Planning Boards of Chapel I1i11 and Orange County procmded to develop a Land the Plan. The Town of Carrboro was also updating its Land Use Plan and began to partioipate its the Joint Planning process. A public informational n i eetiiig was held in November I 9 S 5. The results of This meeting cconnbirwd with input gathered at public hearings in January April 1986 were merged to produce the Joint Prins Area Land Use Pi m The Chapel Till Town Council and the Orange Co-unty Board of Commissioners adopted the Plan on October 13. 1986. Following efforts to streamline the revive process for developments located in transition areas, the Town of Carrboro joined Chapel Hill and Orange County in adopting a new Joint Planning Agreement on November 2, 1987, • Since 19S7, the Joint Planning Asmeement has been ne, four times_ These amendments have revisal the Transition Area boundaries, implemented strategies to protect the University Lake waterahed, allowed for . temporary development moratoria and incorporated the Water au d Sewer Boundary Agreerriefit,