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F PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE JOINT PLANNING AREA LAND USE PLAN AND MAP REFERENCE: JPA -2 -91 Section V. Joint Planning Operating Principles (Land Use Classification System) Section VI. Future Land Use - Joint Planning Area ORIGIN OF AMENDMENT: Staff Planning Board X BOCC Public EXPECTED PUBLIC HEARING DATE: October 10, 1991 Pur ose of Amendment; To incorporate the recommendations of the New Hope Corridor Open Space Master Plan into the Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan and Map. Imyacts/Issues: In 1989, the governing boards of Orange County, Chapel Hill, Durham, and Durham County recognized the value of an open space corridor linking the Eno River State Park, lands along New Hope Creek, and U.S. Corps of Engineers' land at Lake Jordan. The four jurisdictions contracted with Coulter Associates, Landscape Architects & Land Planners, to prepare a master plan for the corridor. Prepared with the assistance of a multi - jurisdictional Advisory Committee, the New Hope Corridor Open Space Master Plan was presented to elected officials of the four jurisdictions on April 30, 1991. The Plan includes recommendations for acquiring critical environmental areas such as stream beds, floodplains, steep slopes, and larger tracts of historic, educational or recreational value. Acquisition could be through donation, purchase in fee simple or purchase of development rights. On May 28, 1991, the Master Plan was presented at public hearing. In August, the County Commission- ers directed the Planning Staff to propose appropriate amendments to the Comprehensive Plan and the Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan. The proposed amendment to the Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan will add language to two sections to describe the New Hope Creek Corridor Open Space Areas as an additional category of land use classification in the Transition and Rural Buffer