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MEMORANDUM <br />To: Orange County Board of Commissioners <br />Chapel Hill Town Council <br />Orange County Planning Board <br />John Link, Orange County Manager <br />W. Calvin Horton, Chapel Hill Town Manager <br />FROM: Orange County Planning Staff <br />Chapel Hlll Planning Staff <br />DATE: April 11, 200]. <br />SUBJECT: JPA-CH-Z-1-Ol THE HOMESTEAD ZONING ATLAS AMENDMENT - <br />Proposed Amendment to the Joint Planning Area Zoning Atlas <br />The purpose of this Joint Planning Area Public Hearing is to receive public comment on a <br />proposal to amend the Joint Planning Area (JPA) Zoning Atlas to change the zoning far a site <br />along Homestead Road from Residential-2 to Residential-4-Conditional (R-4-C). The site is <br />located in the Chapel Hill Joint Planning Transition Area, adjacent to the existing Chapel Hill <br />Corporate Limits. <br />Background <br />The Town of Chapel Hill has received an application for a Zoning Atlas Amendment to rezone a <br />4$.11-acre site that is located north of Homestead Road, east of the University Branch Southern <br />Railroad, west of Homestead Pazk and south of the recently approved Pazkside II Subdivision. <br />The property is currently located within the Residential-2 (R-2) zoning district, and is identified <br />as Chapel Hill Township Tax Map 24, Lot 16 and a portion of Lot 12 (PIN# 9880-01-0417 and <br />P1N # 9870-92-4174). The property owner has requested that the site be rezoned from <br />Residential-2 (R-2) to Residential-4-Conditional (R~4-C). The owner has also submitted a letter <br />outlining voluntary limitations regarding the future use of the site, if the Residential-4- <br />Conditional (R-4-C) zoning is approved for this site. <br />Summa of the Cha el Hill and Joint Plannin Area Land Use Plans <br />A Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan was adopted in 19$6. Also in that year, Chapel Hill <br />adopted a new Land Use Plan. We pate that there are some minor differences between the <br />land use designations in some of the areas on the two maps. For this parcel proposed for <br />rezoning, the land generally between Homestead Road and Eubanks Road, and between the <br />railroad tracks and the Chapel Hill City Limits, the property is designated "Medium <br />Residential" on the Chapel Hill plan, but "Suburban Residential" on the Joint Plawung Area <br />