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1 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: September 5, 2017 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. 6-c <br /> SUBJECT: Chapel Hill Extraterritorial Jurisdiction (ETJ) Expansion <br /> DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: (919) <br /> 1. Correspondence Between Town of Perdita Holtz, 245-2578 <br /> Craig Benedict, 245-2592 <br /> Chapel Hill and Orange County <br /> 2. Proposed Letter to Town of Chapel Hill <br /> 3. Map of Town of Chapel Hill's ETJ <br /> Expansion Proposal <br /> PURPOSE: To approve sending the Town of Chapel Hill a letter in support of the Town's <br /> proposal to move forward to a public hearing regarding extension of its ETJ over 184.9 acres of <br /> land in the northern portion of the town. <br /> BACKGROUND: Possible amendments to the Joint Planning Area were introduced to the <br /> Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) at a February 13, 2017 work session. Since <br /> February, Town of Chapel Hill staff introduced the possible amendments to the Town Council <br /> and the Mayor of Chapel Hill sent a letter to the County in July (see Attachment 1). <br /> The Town is interested in holding a public hearing on the proposed ETJ expansions (see map in <br /> Attachment 3). BOCC members may recall that the February work session introduction <br /> included an area encompassing 207.8 acres in the "southern triangle" of Orange County. There <br /> is interest on the part of the Town, per Town Council discussion, to jointly study this area to <br /> determine which portions may warrant changing the designation from Transition Area to Rural <br /> Buffer. However, because amending the "southern triangle" area would require a different <br /> process than extending the ETJ, it is not under consideration as part of the ETJ expansion <br /> request. Specifically, a change would have to be heard at a joint public hearing of Orange <br /> County and the Towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro and must be approved by all three local <br /> governments. <br /> The action requested tonight is for the BOCC to approve sending the letter in Attachment 2 to <br /> the Town of Chapel Hill. This letter supports the Town moving forward to a public hearing on <br /> the ETJ expansions. Subsequent to the public hearing, if the Town is still interested in pursuing <br /> the ETJ expansion, the BOCC will be asked to adopt a formal resolution of support. <br /> As the letter in Attachment 2 acknowledges, amendments to the Water and Sewer <br /> Management, Planning, and Boundary Agreement (WASMPBA) would be necessary in order to <br /> serve the parcels in the Millhouse Road area with public water and sewer; this includes the <br />