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16 <br />2 <br />The changes in land use designation that have been so proposed by Chapel Hill are on the <br />northwest side of Town, in the Eubanks Road area. These changes were considered at a <br />Joint Public Hearing last year, and accompanying change to the Joint Planning Area Land <br />Use Plan was approved by the Chapel Hill Town Council and the Carrboro Board of <br />--_- Aldermen following the hearing. The Board of Commissioners did not take final action <br />on the proposed amendment, and a status report on that topic is on tonight's agenda for <br />discussion. <br />A related action of the Chapel Hill Town Council on May 8, 2000, was to constrict <br />Chapel Hill's Urban Services Boundary to the south of Chapel Hill's corporate limits. A <br />map is attached (Map 1) that shows the new Urban Services Boundary in this area. <br />Chapel Hill did not request an accompanying change to the Joint Planning Area Land Use <br />Plan for the portion of this land that is within the Joint Planning Area, because no change <br />in land use designation was proposed. A second map is attached (Map 2, Excerpt from <br />the Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan) showing this area, and its land use designation as <br />"Suburban Residential -Chapel Hill Transition Area." No change in that designation has <br />been proposed. Zoning in this area is Residential-Low Density-1, requiring a one-acre <br />minimum lot size. <br />DISCUSSION - - <br />No change to the Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan has yet been proposed for this area. <br />We understand that. the purpose of tonight's discussion is to clarify the status of this area, <br />its land use designation and its zoning. <br />We note that while the concepts of Rural Buffer and Urban Services Area aze related, <br />they aze not necessarily paired along a common boundary. In this case, for example, the <br />Rural Buffer is a Joint Planning Area category, accompanied by County control over <br />zoning and development. Land in the Joint Planning Area not designated Rural Buffer on <br />the Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan is designated either Carrboro Transition or Chapel <br />Hill Transition, where Orange County and either Carrboro or Chapel Hill share <br />jurisdiction over zoning decisions and either Carrboro or Chapel Hill makes decisions on <br />development applications. "Not within the Urban Services Boundary" is not synonymous <br />with "Rural Buffer." For example, there are several areas within Chapel Hill's <br />Extraterritorial Planning Area that aze not within the Urban Services Boundary. <br />SUMMARY <br />A staff presentation tonight will review the land use, .zoning, and jurisdictional context <br />for an azea south of Chapel Hill that is currently outside of Chapel Hill's Urban Services <br />Boundary, but within Chapel Hill's Transition Area. <br />Attachments <br />