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a� Orange County Board of Commissioners Page 3 August 15, 2002 flexible development technique which is now in place for the rest of the County' s planning jurisdiction can be put in place in the Rural Buffer so long as the minimum two acre lot size is not compromised. 2. Any Orange County ordinance amendments, both zoning and subdivision, which would have the effect of implementing flexible development in the Rural Buffer would have to be accomplished as prescribed in Section 2 . 6 of the Joint Planning Agreement. That is, the proposal, to the extent that it effects either the Chapel Hill joint development area or the Carrboro joint development area would have to be referred to Chapel Hill and Carrboro respectively for review and recommendation. The County would have to wait the shorter of 30 days or receipt of those recommendations before it could act. There is no joint approval required for any such amendments. So long as the proposed amendments did not require a land use plan amendment (and what is used here as an example, in my opinion, would not) and did not attempt to violate the Joint Planning Agreement, Orange County' s approval of the amendments to its land use regulations is all that is required. Furthermore, these amendments would not have to go through the Joint Planning Area public hearing process. Only Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan amendments, Chapel Hill or Carrboro zoning map amendments affecting the Transition Areas and text amendments to Carrboro and Chapel Hill' s land use regulations which are inconsistent with the adopted Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan are subject to a joint public hearing and joint approval. 3 . Presently the County' s regulations do not provide for neighborhood meetings or neighborhood notice for subdivisions in the Rural Buffer. And, as you know, Orange County does not conduct public hearings as part of its subdivision review process unless the subdivision is presented by the developer as a planned development under the Zoning Ordinance. If the subdivision is also a planned development there is a public hearing, part of the special use permit process. I can recall very few residential subdivisions being presented to Orange County as planned developments and only one, Churton Grove, having been approved. Typically the only time a developer chooses the planned development, special use process is where the developer is seeking greater density than the zoning regulations permit. The Subdivision Regulations can be amended to require neighborhood meetings and neighborhood notice in the