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1 <br />ORANGE C O U N T Y <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: August 20, 1991_ <br />Agenda Abstract <br />Item <br />SUBJECT: HILLSBOROUGH COOPERATIVE PLANNING AREA BOUNDARIES <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning PUBLIC HEARING: Yes_g_No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Eidener 7/15/91 Memorandum Planning Director X2592 <br />Draft 7/15/91 Planning Board <br />Minutes PHONE NUMBERS: <br />Carey 7/5/91 Memorandum Hillsborough 732 -8181 <br />Draft 6/17/91 Planning Board Mebane 227 -2031 <br />Minutes Durham 688 -7331 <br />PB /EDC Work Group Schedule Chapel Hill 967 -9251 <br />Hillsborough CPZ Proposal <br />Draft 8/5/91 Commissioners <br />Minutes <br />PURPOSE: To consider proposed additions to the Transition <br />Areas of the Hillsborough Cooperative Planning Area. <br />BACKGROUND: During recent months, two representatives from the <br />governing boards of Orange County and the Town of <br />Hillsborough met to discuss issues and objectives <br />inherent in a cooperative planning and land use <br />agreement. On June 4, 1991, the governing boards <br />met to review a proposal drafted by the work group. <br />The two governing boards agreed to the proposal <br />except for locations in the Transition Area. These <br />included: <br />1. The area bounded generally by I -40, Old Chapel <br />Hill - Hillsborough Road (South Churton Street <br />Extension), N.C. Highway 86, and the current <br />Transition Area boundary; and <br />2. The area bounded generally by U.S. 70 Bypass, <br />U.S. 70 Business, and Lawrence Road. <br />Although both areas are currently designated Rural <br />Residential in the Land Use Element of the <br />Comprehensive Plan, area #1 above is one of three <br />targeted for study by the Planning Board /Economic <br />Development Work Group as an "economic development <br />district." The goal for such districts is to provide <br />