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29 <br /> Slide #32 <br /> Joint Land Use Plan <br /> Rural Buffer Orange County-Chapel Hill-Carrboro <br /> JOINT PLANNING AREA-LAND USE PLAN <br /> • Over 36,000 acres in size <br /> • Rural Buffer is the Primary <br /> land use designation. - <br /> • There are 5 sub-categories of <br /> land use that comprise the <br /> "Rural Buffer" <br /> — Resource Protection - <br /> - PubliclPrivate Open Space <br /> — Rural Residential <br /> — Extractive Use Chapel Hill <br /> — Retail Trade Carrb <br /> • Orange County planning - <br /> jurisdiction with courtesy <br /> review by the Towns <br /> Certain amendments require joint —. =w= <br /> public hearing by the 3 local <br /> governments <br /> Perdita Holtz brought attention to the area north of Chapel Hill, the northern rural buffer. <br /> She said this area is not within a water supply watershed and would not have impervious surface <br /> limits if not for the Rural Buffer classification. <br /> Slide #33 <br /> Orange County-Chapel Hill-Carrboro <br /> Rural Buffer <br /> JOINT PLANNING AREA-LAND USE PLAN <br /> Subcategories � . <br /> • Resource Protection x <br /> • Public/Private Open Space f t. <br /> r <br /> • Rural Residential -_ <br /> • Extractive Use <br /> • Retail Trade - <br /> Chapel ' <br /> Hill <br /> Carrboro., <br /> _ l <br /> i <br /> Perdita Holtz pointed out the quarry, Blackwood Station, and Duke Forest on the map. <br />