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~~~ MEMORANDUM TO: Orange County Board of Commissioners Chapel Hill Town Council Carrboro Board of Aldermen FROM: Orange County Planning Staff Chapel Hill Planning Staff Carrboro Planning Staff CC: John Link, Orange County Manager W. Calvin Horton, Chapel Hill Town Manager Steven Stewart, Carrboro Town Manager DATE: March 29, 2004 SUBJECT': March 29, 2004 Joint Planning Area Public Hearing: Proposed Amendments to the Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan and Map The purpose of this item is to receive public comment on proposed amendments to the Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan and Map. Background Exhibit A of the Joint Planning Agreement (Joint Planning Area Land Use Map) depicts the areas described in the agreement, notably the Rural Buffer and Chapel Hill and Carrboro Transition Areas. Amendments by the Town of Chapel Hill to its Comprehensive Plan in May 2000, and more recently, inclusion of the Water and Sewer Management, Planning and Boundary Agreement into the Jaint Planning Agreement in 2002 have resulted in a retraction of the area originally proposed to receive public water and sewer service, i.e., the Urban Services Area. The area affected by these changes is known as the Chapel Hill Southern Transition Area. It is bounded to the south by Chatham County, US 15/501 to the west, the Chapel Hill Extraterritorial Jurisdiction (ETJ) to the north, and- Old Lystra Road to the east. The joint planning staffs interpret this as a change in land use policy and recommend that the Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan and Map be amended to change the area from Transition to Rural Buffer. Joint Planning Basics Orange County-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Joint Planning is premised on two types of areas adjacent to the existing incorporated areas and ETJs: Transition Areas and Rural Buffer. G9Canryrebcnsive Planning DiNGENE~2004 Public HcaringsBvlar 291PAUmdt to TI'A LUPWmdt to TPA lUP 1(51a17Memo doc 3