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F, 5 O R A N G E C O U N T Y BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date August 30, 1990 Action Agenda Item # 0- L SUBJECT: CONCEPTUAL GUIDELINES FOR THE RURAL BUFFER ...As Submitted by the Rural Character Study Committee DEPARTMENT: PLANNING PUBLIC HEARING X Yes No ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: * - Letter of Transmittal David Stancil, Extension 2590 * - CONCEPTUAL GUIDELINES FOR THE RURAL BUFFER TELEPHONE NUMBERS: * - Joint Staff Report Hillsborough - 732 -8181 * - Analysis by Milton Heath Durham - 688 -7331 * - Letter from Duke University Mebane - 227 -2031 * - Related News Articles Chapel Hill - 967 -9251 PURPOSE: To receive public input on the recommended strategy for the Rural Buffer, as adopted by the Rural Character Study Committee. BACKGROUND: The Rural Character Study Committee, a group of 16 County and Town citizens, was charged in 1988 with developing a strategy for the preservation of Orange County's "Rural Character ". The Committee's objectives in this effort were to develop strategies for the County, with primary focus on a program for the Rural Buffer portion of the County. The Committee's goals in pursuing this strategy are the preservation of agriculture, the management of growth, and the protection of natural and visual resources through environmentally - sensitive site design. The Committee has met with a number of rural residents and civic groups in drafting and adopting the Conceptual Guidelines for the Rural Buffer. These Conceptual Guidelines... represent a policy guide for land use development patterns and resource protection methods in the Rural Buffer. The Guidelines attempt to address the objectives of the study by recommending five development options that provide for resource protection and environmentally - sensitive site design. At the same time, the Guidelines seek to recognize decades of land stewardship by rural residents as well as the private property rights of individual landholders.