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MEMORANDUM TO: Orange County Board of Commissioners Chapel Hill Town Council --- Carrboro Board of Aldermen FROM: .Craig Benedict, Orange County Planning Director Roger Waldon, Chapel Hill Planning Director Roy Williford, Carrboro Planning Director CC: John Link, Orange County Manager W. Calvin Horton, Chapel Hill Town Manager Robert Morgan, Carrboro Town Manager DATE: Apri117, 2002 SUBJECT: Chapel Hill Comprehensive Plan Amendments for the Northwest Area The purpose of this Memorandum is to report on progress towazd adoption by Orange County of the following amendments to the Joint Planning Land Use Plan and Map, presented at the April 2001 Joint Planning Area Public Hearing: • Changing the designation of the Greene Tract from "Landfill Pending Further Study" to "Housing/Open Space"; • Changing the designation of .land south of Eubanks Road from "Open Space" to "Low Residential"; • Changing the designation of land north of Eubanks Road, between the existing landfill - and iVlillhouse Road, from "Mixed Use, Office Emphasis" to "Open Space"; and • Changing the designation of parcels between Millhouse Road and Interstate 40 from "Mixed Use, Office Emphasis" to "Rural Residential." The purpose of these amendments- is to promote consistency with the Chapel Hill 2000 Comprehensive Plan. Background In July 1998, the Chapel Hill Town Council initiated a revision of the Town's 1989 Comprehensive Plan and 1986 Land Use Plan. A Work Group was appointed in the fall of 1998 with a charge to develop a draft plan to present to the Town- Council in September 1999. The preliminary target was to have a new Comprehensive .Plan adopted by the end of November 1999. The 31-member Work Group conducted its work through a combination of public symposia, public meetings, direction to staff and consultant, review, discussion, and editing of- materials prepared by staff and consultant, and a final vote to send the draft plan on to the Town Council for consideration.