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7 1 4. Proclamations/ Resolutions/ Special Presentations 2 None. 3 4 5. Public Hearings 5 None. 6 7 6. Regular Agenda 8 a. Amendments to the Water and Sewer Management, Planning, and Boundary Agreement 9 The Board considered a resolution approving amendments proposed by the Town of Chapel Hill 10 to the Water and Sewer Management, Planning, and Boundary Agreement. 11 12 BACKGROUND: The Water and Sewer Management, Planning, and Boundary Agreement 13 (WASMPBA) is an agreement signed in 2001 between Orange County, the Orange Water and 14 Sewer Authority (OWASA), and the Towns of Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and Hillsborough. It was last 15 amended in November 2020. The agreement provides a comprehensive county-wide system of 16 utility service areas upon which signatory entities could rely when making decisions related to 17 issues such as planning, land use, annexation, zoning, and growth management. 18 19 The Town of Chapel Hill received a request from the Chamber for a Greater Chapel Hill-Carrboro 20 to modify the boundaries of OWASA's Primary Service Area within the Town's planning 21 jurisdiction at the June 14, 2023 Council meeting (Attachment 4). At its November 15, 2023 22 Council meeting, the Town adopted a Resolution to amend the WASMPBA (Attachment 2). All 23 five signatories to the Agreement must adopt resolutions amending the Agreement before any 24 proposed amendment is incorporated into the Agreement. Materials for the November 15, 2023 25 Town Council meeting, including a staff report, are available for viewing at: 26 https://chapelhiI1.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=6414722&GUID=5B798FC2-BED6- 27 47A5-BB9F-24D77186A447 The staff report prepared by Town staff includes links to additional 28 materials. 29 30 As is shown on the map attached to the Resolution in Attachment 1, the area proposed to be 31 designated OWASA Primary Service Area contains 139 parcels totaling approximately 360.23 32 acres. The area has been reviewed by OWASA staff and is technically feasible for provision of 33 both water and sewer service (Attachment 4). The map in Attachment 3 depicts the southeast 34 portion of the WASMPBA Appendix A map and shows the extent of the proposed additional 35 OWASA Primary Service Area. 36 37 The area proposed for amendment is entirely within the Town of Chapel Hill's planning jurisdiction. 38 The majority of the area (approximately 239 acres) is within the Town's Extraterritorial Jurisdiction 39 (ETJ)while approximately 121 acres to the southeast of Highway 15-501 is designated "Transition 40 Area" in the Joint Planning Land Use Plan (plan and maps available here). Both ETJ areas and 41 Transition Areas are lands expected to be served by urban services, such as public water and 42 sewer systems, and are zoned and otherwise regulated for land use by the Town of Chapel Hill. 43 Nearly all of the properties within the area of consideration are currently zoned "Residential Low 44 Density, 1 unit/acre". Rezoning of a property within a Transition Area requires a joint public 45 hearing of the Town and Orange County, unless a property is voluntarily annexed into the Town 46 of Chapel Hill, in which case a land use change such as rezoning will be solely within the Town's 47 jurisdiction. As is explained in the Town staff's report(within the link to the Town Council meeting 48 materials), some properties in the area under consideration are already served by public water 49 and/or sewer as they were connected prior to 2000, when the Town's land use plan contracted 50 the urban services area in this general area of the Town's planning jurisdiction. 51