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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: November 19, 2002 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. ~~ <br />SUBJECT: Orange County/Hillsborough Courtesy Review Agreement <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />Revised Draft Agreement <br />Revised Map <br />Public Water and Sewer Coordination Plan <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Craig N. Benedict, Director, ext. 2592 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane (336)227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To consider a revised courtesy review agreement with the Town of Hillsborough. <br />BACKGROUND: This item was discussed at the January 29, 2001 Board of Commissioners <br />work session and again during a joint meeting with the Town of Hillsborough on January 31, <br />2001. The Board adopted the agreement on March 6, 2001. Hillsborough discussed the <br />agreement that spring, but did not adopt it. <br />Issues that prevented the town adopting the agreement in 2001 included concern of increased <br />workload by Hillsborough's planning director and size or threshold limit activating review of a <br />project. These items have since been discussed and negotiated by a joint staff work group <br />composed of John Link, Orange County Manager, Craig Benedict, Orange County Planning <br />Director, Eric Peterson, Hillsborough Town Manager, Demetric Potts, Assistant Town Manager <br />and Public Works Director, and Margaret Hauth, Town Planning Director. This was discussed <br />at a Joint Meeting in May, 2002. <br />A revised agreement is now presented for consideration. The primary difference with the <br />previous agreement involves setting a threshold for project review of five acres for land use <br />amendments, rezonings, special use permits, conditional use permits and annexations or a <br />project with a 50 unit residential component. These thresholds include both residential and <br />non-residential (i.e. commercial, office, industrial) projects. As with the previous agreement, the <br />area includes the water and sewer service area boundary both in Orange County and Town of <br />Hillsborough jurisdiction. <br />