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Transfer of Development Rights: A system of allowing the actual development rights from one tract of land to be transferred from the original tract to a designated tract elsewhere for development. Definitions for other terms used in this document are as expressed in the Land Use Element of the Comprehensive P 7nnina Ordinance. Subdivision Reaulations and Joint. Plan B. The Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan and Agreement In 1987, the governing boards of Orange County, Chapel Hill and Carrboro entered into an agreement to jointly establish, administer and utilize a land use plan for a 45- square mile area to the north and west of the Towns where a mutual interest in the pattern and pace of development was held by all three parties. As a part of this process, the Joint Planning Area (hereinafter referred to as JPA) Land Use Plan and Map was adopted by all three jurisdictions. In summary, this JPA Plan created land use plan categories that identified 1 Major Classes of land use 2 Subclasses of land use, and smaller, more specific 3 Categories of land use within the Joint Planning Area,'or.JPA. The Major Classes identified and adopted were Transition, Rural, and Conservation. The Transition.Class contains land that is located adjacent to the.Towns. These Transition Areas recognize the transitional nature of these areas from rural uses to more urban uses. The remainder of the JPA, located in the outlying areas to the north and west, contains land that is more rural in nature and is therefore classified-as Conservation and Rural. Because these categories are inter- related and inter - dependent, the JPA Plan combines them into one subclass, entitled Rural Buffer. it is this Rural,-Buffer-that - is the focus of the strategies contained within this documet. II'. GENERAL POLICY STATEMENTS FOR THE RURAL BUFFER The charge of the 16- citizen Rural Character Study Committee has .been to consider the current land use conditions, development standard,, and resource protection methods for the Rural Buffer. In so doing, the objectives of the Study have been defined as follows: To guide and direct the development of a comprehensive Rural Character Study /Open Space Plan for the County, with an objective of coordinating the issues of: - Agricultural Preservation - Natural Resource Protection - Visual Resource Protection - Growth Management A b