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3 <br /> APPROVED 6118102 <br /> MINUTES <br /> ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> CARRBORO BOARD OF ALDERMEN <br /> CHAPEL HILL TOWN COUNCIL <br /> April 17, 2002 <br /> The Orange County Board of Commissioners met in joint session with the Carrboro Board of <br /> Aldermen and the Chapel Hill Town Council on Wednesday, April 17, 2002 at 7:30 p.m. in the board <br /> room of the Southern Human Services Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina for the purpose of holding a <br /> Joint Planning Area Public Hearing. <br /> COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Barry Jacobs and Commissioners Margaret W. <br /> Brown, Moses Carey, Jr., Alice M. Gordon and Stephen Halkiotis <br /> COUNTY ATTORNEY PRESENT: Geoffrey Gledhill and Sean Borhanian <br /> COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager John M. Link, Jr., and Clerk to the Board Beverly A. <br /> Blythe (All other staff members will be identified appropriately below) <br /> TOWN OF CHAPEL HILL COUNCIL MEMBERS PRESENT: Mayor Kevin C. Foy and Council <br /> Members Flicks Bateman, Pat Evans, Ed Harrison, Mark Kleinschmidt, Bill Strom, Dorothy Verkerk, Jim <br /> Ward, and Edith M. Wiggins <br /> CARRBORO BOARD OF ALDERMEN MEMBERS PRESENT: Mayor Michael R. Nelson and <br /> Aldermen Mark Dorosin, Jacquelyn Gist, John Herrera, Diana McDuffee, Alex Zaffron, and Joal Hall <br /> Broun <br /> NOTE: ALL DOCUMENTS REFERRED TO IN THESE MINUTES ARE IN THE PERMANENT <br /> AGENDA FILE IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE. <br /> A. OPENING REMARKS FROM THE CHAIR <br /> Chair Jacobs welcomed everyone to the meeting. He said that there would probably be more joint <br /> meetings like this in the future with the implementation of the new County's comprehensive plan. <br /> B. PUBLIC CHARGE <br /> Chair Jacobs dispensed with the reading of the public charge. <br /> Commissioner Brown arrived at 7:45 p.m. <br /> C. JOINT PUBLIC HEARING <br /> 1. Joint Plannina Agreement Amendment JPA-1.02 <br /> Planning Director Craig Benedict made this presentation. He said that this is a proposed <br /> amendment to the Joint Planning Agreement to provide linkage with the Water and Sewer Management, <br /> Planning and Boundary Agreement. He showed the water and sewer service areas on a map. He made <br /> reference to the replacement pages for pages 12-13 (blue paper), which added some clarification to the <br /> language. He read the new language. He said that the staff tried to leave the existing Joint Planning <br /> Area Agreement intact and just provide the linkage language that would link it to the Water and Sewer <br /> Management Planning and Boundary Agreement. <br /> In answer to a question about the area east of Hillsborough, Craig Benedict said that this area <br /> was designated as the Orange County Primary Interest Area, and the decision on how water and sewer <br /> is provided would be made by Orange County. At this time,there is an emergency interconnect feed in <br /> Hillsborough and Durham in this area. <br /> Barry Katz said that the current rural buffer is in the OWASA long-term interest area and he <br /> asked for comment from OWASA and Orange County on why the rural buffer is not in the Orange County <br />