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2. Orange County Comprehensive Plan Land Use Element -Evaluation of Urban/Rural Transitions On March 25, 2003, the County held a Joint Work Session between the Comprehensive Plan Land Use Committee, Board of County Commissioners, and a few members of the Planning Board to discuss growth management tools and community outreach. The discussion focused on the challenge of defining a clear pattern of land use residential density and demarcating rural and urban uses and design. Simultaneous with community outreach efforts in the rural sections of the County, Orange County would like to solicit municipal input. Therefore, Orange County is asking for the Town's cooperation in examining the critical area surrounding Hillsborough. We can discuss previous studies of this area, and discuss the growth management tools that the County is considering. Although the critical area referred to above lies within Orange County's planning jurisdiction, Orange County recognizes the areas where rural and urban land uses meet as critical planning areas and anticipates a mutual interest in cooperative planning for this area. No Attachments 3. Schools Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance (SAPFO) -Next Steps The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and Schools APFO have been approved by the majority of all the partners that are party to the Orange County School District and Chapel Hill- Carrboro School Districts. The Chapel Hill-Carrboro School Districts partners will be proposing changes, similar to the Orange County School District, that temporarily suspend the Schools APFO adequacy test until new capacity is added (for CHCCS, at the High School level; for OCS, at the Middle School level). With these changes, the Schools APFO could be adopted by all jurisdictions in May and June with implementation thereafter. Regarding the Orange County School District, since long term capacity is available at the Elementary and High School level and the Middle School adequacy test is suspended, then Schools APFO would not have a direct effect on new development. However, the Schools APFO and Certificate of Adequate Public Schools (CAPS) system does offer an important growth management tool to local government to monitor the pace of development through project phasing and greatly assist in the collection of information and capital planning used in providing school public services and maintaining the high standards of education in the District. Information is attached that responds to Hillsborough's inquiry regarding the potential impact, if any, (pursuant to the Town of Hillsborough's request through the Schools and Land Use Councils) from the City of Durham and Mebane which, at this time, are not parties to the agreement. Attachment 3 -Report on the Effect of the City of Durham and City of Mebane on Schools APFO 4. Orange County/Hillsborough Courtesy Review Provided for Board discussion is the revised Courtesy Review Agreement, including the "Reservation of Utility Capacity for Review Purposes", that can become part of the submittal