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~~,~ <br />MEMORANDUM <br />TO: Orange County Board of Commissioners <br />Chapel Hill Town Council <br />Carrboro Board of Aldermen <br />FROM: Orange County Planning Staff <br />CC: John Link, Orange County Manager <br />W. Calvin Horton, Chapel Hill Town Manager <br />Steven Stewart, Carrboro Town Manager <br />DATE: March 29, 2004 <br />SUBJECT: March 29, 2004 Joint Planning Area Public Hearing: Orange County <br />Zoning Atlas -Proposed Rezoning of Chapel Hill Southern Transition <br />Area <br />The purpose of this item is to receive public comment on a proposal to amend the <br />Orange County Zoning Atlas to rezone from Chapel Hill R-LD-1 zoning to Orange <br />County Rural Buffer (RB) zoning, the area currently designated Chapel Hill Southern <br />Transition Area in the Joint Planning Area Land use Plan, <br />Background <br />Amendments by the Town of Chapel Hill to its Comprehensive Plan in May 2000, and <br />more recently, incorporating the Water and Sewer Management, Planning and <br />Boundary Agreement info the Joint Planning Agreement in 2002 have resulted in a <br />retraction of the area originally proposed to receive public wafer and sewer service, i.e,, <br />the Urban Services Area. <br />The area affected by these changes is known as the Chapel Hill Southern Transition <br />Area. It is bounded to the south by Chatham County, US 15/501 to the west, the <br />Chapel Hill Extraterritorial Jurisdiction (ETJ) to the north, and Old Lystra Road to the <br />east. It is triangular in shape and contains approximately 209 acres, The area <br />contains 46 single-family dwellings (about one-third of which are manufactured housing) <br />mostly along, or accessible from, Old Lystra Road. <br />A concurrent Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan amendment (if approved) will change <br />the land use designation of this area from Transition to Rural Buffer. As per the terms <br />of the Orange County-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Joint Planning Agreement, Transition Areas <br />are zoned by Chapel Hill and Carrboro for their respective Transition Areas. Chapel Hill <br />R-LD1 zoning was approved for the Chapel Hill Southern Transition Area in 1993 <br />following adoption of the Southern Small Area Plan. Changing the Land Use Plan <br />G:\Comprchensive Planning Div\GENE\2004 Public HearingsWiar 29 7PAViB Rezoning\li.B Rezoning OC StaRMemo doc 3 <br />