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1 <br /> JOINT MEETING <br /> ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS/ <br /> HILLSBOROUGH BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: May6,2002 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. <br /> SUBJECT: Collaborative Planning <br /> DEPARTMENT: Planning PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) No <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> Craig Benedict, W2592 <br /> Revised Courtesy Review Agreement <br /> TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br /> Hillsborough 7328181 <br /> Chapel Hill 9884501 <br /> Durham 688-7331 <br /> Mebane 336-227 @031 <br /> PURPOSE: To discuss several opportunities for collaboration related to planning and <br /> development and the environment. <br /> BACKGROUND: <br /> a) Courtesy Review <br /> The purpose of this item is to consider a revised courtesy review agreement between the Town <br /> of Hillsborough and Orange County. This hem was previously discussed at a joint meeting <br /> between the Boards on January 31, 2001. <br /> A few issues were unresolved at that time, such as fire size or threshold limit activating review <br /> of a pmject. These Items have since been discussed and negotiated by a Joint staff work group <br /> consisting of John Link, Orange County Manager, Craig Benedict, Orange County Planning <br /> Director, Edo Petersen, Hillsborough Town Manager, Demetric Potts, Assistant Town <br /> Manager/Public Works Director, and Margaret Hal Town Planning Director. <br /> A revised agreement is now presented for consideration. The primary difference tram the <br /> previous agreement involves setting a threshold for project review of five acres for land use <br /> amendments, rezonings, special use permits,conditional use permits and annexations,or a <br /> project with a 50-unit residential component. These thresholds include both residential and <br /> non-residential (i.e. commercial, offices, industrial)projects. As with the previous agreement <br /> the area includes the water and sewer service area boundary bath in Orange County and the <br /> Town of Hillsborough jurisdiction. <br /> The process for distribution of development project review material in each local government is <br /> not included in the agreement because It is an internal process. The agreement does include <br />