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A RESOLUTION AMENDING THE JOINT PLANNING AREA ZONING ATLAS <br />WHEREAS, Orange County and the Town of Chapel Hill entered into a Joint <br />Planning Agreement dated September 22, 1987, as amended April 2, <br />1990; and <br />WHEREAS, pursuant to the Joint Planning Agreement, a Joint Planning Area <br />Land Use Plan and Map were adopted on October 13, 1986; by all parties <br />to the Joint Planning Agreement, and have since been amended on <br />several occasions; and <br />WHEREAS, a Joint Planning Area Public Hearing was held on April 11, 2001 to <br />consider an application (JPA-CH-Z-01) to rezone a 48.11 acre site on the <br />north side of Homestead Road in the Chapel Hill Joint Planning Transition <br />Area; and <br />WHEREAS, zoning changes to property located in the Chapel Hill Joint Planning <br />Transition Area require the approval of bath the Chapel Hill Town Council <br />and Orange County Board of Commissioners; and <br />WHEREAS, the Chapel Hill Town Council considered JPA-CH-Z-01 on June 25, <br />2001, and adopted "An Ordinance Amending the Chapel Hill Zoning Atlas <br />for the Homestead Development"; and <br />WHEREAS, the Orange County Planning Board recommended approval of <br />JPA-CH-Z-01 on~July 1.1, 2001. <br />NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Orange County Board of <br />Commissioners: <br />That the portion of the site identified as now or formerly Chapel Hill <br />Township Tax Map 24, Lot 16 and a portion of Lot 12, that are currently <br />zoned Residential-2 (R-2), located north of Homestead Road, between <br />the University Branch Southern Railroad and Homestead Park, shall be <br />rezoned to Residential-4-Conditional (R~-C) zoning, with the following <br />limita#ions on uses: <br />That residential development shall be limited to a maximum density of <br />4.1 units per acre; and <br />That a minimum of 15% of the proposed dwelling units shall consist of <br />permanently affordable units available for private ownership. An <br />affordable dwelling unit shall be defined as a unit that is priced at a <br />level affordable to households earning 80% or less of the median <br />income for the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Metropolitan Statistical <br />