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Approved 5/7/14 9 of this item is to familiarize the Planning Board with the plan and agreement in anticipation of 430 recommendation the Planning Board will be asked to make in regards to Agenda Items 11 and 431 12. 432 Presenter: Perdita Holtz, Special Projects Coordinator 433 434 Perdita Holtz: Reviewed background. 435 436 Paul Guthrie: Given the nature of the Annexation laws in this state, does the annexation plan really have any 437 relevance to the process? 438 439 Craig Benedict: Yes, a joint planning agreement is more effective now under new annexation laws because the 440 ability for a city to annex an area not contiguous is more difficult. This gives them the opportunity to have some 441 control of what may eventually be urban environment when the annexation does allow so there is more consistency. 442 In many cases, where people want to have a future annexation area or control land use and zoning, they ask the 443 state to expand their ETJ. 444 445 Perdita Holtz: Not by people, municipalities. 446 447 Craig Benedict: That still happens across North Carolina. This was a hybrid solution as opposed to an ETJ 448 expansion. 449 450 Perdita Holtz: Water quality issues were also part of it with the University Lake being the sole source of water then. 451 The town has a vested interest in the water quality and wanted to have a say is what is happening. 452 453 Tony Blake: Is Obey Creek still in the county in the southern triangle area? 454 455 Craig Benedict: No, that is part of the town. 456 457 Tony Blake: The state seems to be amenable to developers requesting annexation more than the towns so I 458 wondered what happens when a developer goes in there. 459 460 Paul Guthrie: Actually that property is more difficult to articulate because the Town of Chapel Hill is at the end of the 461 park at Southern Village but I am not sure how far Chapel Hill jurisdiction goes into the woods on the other side 462 where Obey Creek is. Chapel Hill annexed the right of way on Mount Carmel further but a lot of that land between 463 Obie and Mount Carmel is not in Chapel Hill. 464 465 Andrea Rohrbacher: Chapel Hill is going through a restructuring of their boards and commissioners and the current 466 Planning Board allows two ETJ members and there is a proposal to make that one ETJ member because the amount 467 of ETJ is not significant. 468 469 470 AGENDA ITEM 11: JOINT PLANNING LAND USE PLAN AND AGREEMENT AMENDMENT: To receive information on a 471 proposed amendment to the Joint Planning Land Use Plan and Agreement in regards to 472 density in the Rural Buffer land use classification and clarifications on other topics. The item is 473 scheduled for public hearing at the March 27, 2014 Joint Planning Public Hearing and it is 474 expected that the Planning Board will be asked to make a recommendation on the proposed 475 amendment at its May 7, 2014 meeting. 476 Presenter: Michael Harvey, Current Planning Supervisor 477 478 Michael Harvey: Reviewed abstract. 479 480 Tony Blake: If I had a two-acre lot that was not currently subdivided, I could not build a house on it? 481 482