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1 <br />2 <br />3 <br />4 <br />5 <br />6 <br />7 <br />8 <br />9 <br />10 <br />11 <br />12 <br />13 <br />14 <br />15 <br />16 <br />17 <br />18 <br />19 <br />20 <br />21 <br />22 <br />23 <br />24 <br />)25 <br />26 <br />27 <br />28 <br />29 <br />30 <br />31 <br />32 <br />33 <br />34 <br />35 <br />36 <br />37 <br />38 <br />39 <br />40 <br />41 <br />42 <br />43 <br />44 <br />45 <br />46 <br />47 <br />48 <br />49 <br />50 <br />_)51 <br />52 <br />ss <br />M M a Q V <br />3 <br />Committee, stated that he recommends the changes being presented <br />tonight to his friends who own property in the Rural Buffer. The <br />changes will make it better for them to live with the Land Use Plan <br />and what is happening in the RB. If this is adopted, it will remove <br />most of the frustrations in getting through the process. He stated <br />that there is no way to satisfy those people who want no rules in the <br />RB or those that want no growth in the RB. This is a good balance <br />with a lot of give and take. They tried to be sensitive to the <br />concerns of the landowner. He hopes that the Committee will be <br />allowed to bring this study to a conclusion and that it will not be <br />given over to another committee. <br />NOTE: The following three items are so integrally related to each <br />other that they were considered together under one presentation. <br />Following each item is a brief summation of each topic. The <br />presentation and comments follow these brief summaries: <br />1. CONCEPTUAL GUIDELINES FOR THE RURAL BUFFER <br />This item was presented to receive public input on the <br />recommended strategy for the Rural Buffer, as adopted by the Rural <br />Character study Committee. <br />2. LUP -4 -90 JOINT PLANNING AREA LAND USE PLAN <br />This item was presented to receive public input on a <br />proposed amendment to the text of the Joint Planning Area Land Use <br />Plan for Orange County, Chapel Hill, and Carrboro. These amendments <br />are part of a three -part package, related to the recommended strategy <br />for the Rural Buffer entitled Conceptual Guidelines for the Rural <br />Buffer, and an amendment to the Joint Planning Agreement. The <br />amendments to the text of the plan involve changes to the following <br />sections: <br />section III. Infrastructure and Public Services <br />Section V. Joint Planning Operating Principles <br />Section VI. Future Land Use - JPA <br />Section VII. Overview of implementation strategies <br />These amendments all deal with one of the following issues: <br />1) Extension of water and sewer into a defined corridor for <br />planned "Rural Villages ". <br />2) Development standards for lots in the rural Buffer. <br />Currently, a minimum lot size of two -acres is required. The <br />proposed standards would retain that standard as one of five <br />permitted development options, adding others that provide <br />for larger lots and /or.environmentally- sensitive site design <br />through clustered or planned developments. <br />3) Creation of "Rural Villages ", with a small scale <br />commercial core designed to serve the village only. <br />3. JOINT PLANNING AGREEMENT <br />