Agenda - 12-13-2016-13-3 - Information Item - Memorandum - Joint Planning Agreement – Chapel Hill Planning Commission Membership

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INFORMATION ITEM 1 PLANNING & INSPECTIONS DEPARTMENT Craig N. Benedict, AICP, Director Special Projects 131 W. Margaret Lane (919) 245-2575 Suite 201 (919) 644-3002 (FAX) P. O. Box 8181 www.orangecountync.gov 1,t :ARC)1 I N M Hillsborough, NC 27278 � lair i%ifiir/1%"lii/r1 k�1�10y1117rifil y a r nm � lr��)U��IIIV r,,, `1+,M w`-�yil� �.�, ..� k;(�r °I l�nr.0.„. .�iiiir p„f✓�l i� ��.�*�I' I®s„ir i I o�,l��"�'y.r�”�/�I"I��ryIIi Ni �; luu �,�'W'° ' A „ ll r, u d v� r / 407-, g �d D aA�� umiom�[mu"uomuuu � � a�.irt^. uuN�r �IIV��IuA +ulll� 10 I�” ,rr MEMORANDUM TO: Orange County Board of Commissioners CC: Craig N. Benedict, AICO, Planning & Inspections Director FROM: Perdita Holtz, AICP, Planner III DATE: December 7, 2016 SUBJECT: Joint Planning Agreement — Chapel Hill Planning Commission Membership The Joint Planning Agreement (JPA) between the County and Towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro requires that the local governments send proposed amendments to respective zoning regulations (which are named differently in each jurisdiction; for instance, the County's UDO contains its zoning regulations) so staff can determine if proposed amendments are consistent with the Joint Land Use Plan. On October 12, 2016, Town of Chapel Hill staff sent County staff a proposed LUMO amendment that would add an additional seat for a Chapel Hill resident to the Town's Planning Commission. The Town's staff report for this proposal is included as Attachment 1. County Planning staffs response to the Town is included as Attachment 2. A later e- mail from the Mayor of Chapel Hill to the BOCC is provided as Attachment 3. The JPA was amended in December 2015 (after a joint public hearing in October 2015) to address the Town of Chapel Hill's concern that Planning Commission seats set aside for appointment by the County (ETJ resident [required by State statute] and Transition Area resident [required by the JPA]) were not being filled. The materials for the October 2015 hearing include information on population in the Town limits, ETJ, and Transition Area (aka, "JPA area"). One of the points of the population information is that the two `county' seats on the Town's Planning Commission (22% of seats) for ETJ and Transition Area representatives is disproportionate to the population numbers of these areas compared to the Town population (approximately 6.7% of the Town's population live in the ETJ or Transition Area). The December 2015 JPA amendment allows the Town to fill an extended vacancy for the two seats with a Chapel Hill resident if an appointment is not made by the County