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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />TOWN OF CHAPEL HILL COUNCIL <br />TOWN OF CARRBORO BOARD OF ALDERMEN <br />JOINT PLANNING AREA (JPA) JOINT PUBLIC HEARING <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: March 27, 2014 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. C.2 <br /> <br />SUBJECT: Text Amendments to the Joint Planning Land Use Plan and Agreement – <br />Revise Existing Language to Allow for the Possibility of Locating Appropriate Agricultural <br />Support Enterprises in the Rural Buffer Land Use Classification. <br /> <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) Yes <br /> <br /> <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: (919) <br />Pages of Joint Planning Land Use Plan and <br />Agreement Proposed for Amendment <br /> <br />Perdita Holtz, Orange County Planning, 245- <br />2578 <br />Craig Benedict, Orange County Planning, 245- <br />2592 <br />J.B. Culpepper, Town of Chapel Hill Planning, <br />968-2728 <br />Trish McGuire, Town of Carrboro Planning, <br />918-7324 <br /> <br /> <br />PURPOSE: To receive public comment on a proposal to amend the Joint Planning Land Use <br />Plan and Agreement to allow for the possibility of locating appropriate agricultural support <br />enterprises in the Rural Buffer land use classification. <br /> <br />Please note: The Orange County Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) text amendments that <br />would implement the concept of allowing appropriate agricultural support enterprises in the <br />Rural Buffer are not the focus of this public hearing. The UDO text amendments were heard at <br />the County’s February 24, 2014 quarterly public hearing and the process prescribed in the Joint <br />Planning Agreement for UDO text amendments affecting the Rural Buffer was followed. The <br />UDO amendments cannot be adopted by Orange County unless the Joint Planning Land Use <br />Plan and Agreement are amended to allow these types of uses in the Rural Buffer. The draft <br />UDO text amendments are part of the quarterly public hearing materials available at: <br />http://orangecountync.gov/occlerks/140224.pdf. <br /> <br /> <br />BACKGROUND: In the mid-1980s Orange County and the Towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro <br />adopted a Joint Planning Land Use Plan and accompanying Agreement that provided land use <br />planning for the area of the county commonly referred to as the Rural Buffer. Other geographic <br />areas, such as Transition Areas, are also covered in the plan. The full plan and agreement is <br />available at: http://orangecountync.gov/planning/Documents.asp. <br /> <br />32 <br />153