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JOINT MEETING <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS/ <br />HILLSBOROUGH BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />WORK SESSION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: November 21, 2002 Action Agenda <br />Item No. ~_ <br />SUBJECT: Oran a Count /Hillsborou h Courtes Review A reement <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />Revised Draft Agreement <br />Revised Map <br />Public Water and Sewer Coordination Plan <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) No <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 receive report on the status of a proposed Orange County/Hillsborough <br />Courtesy Review Agreement. <br />BACKGROUND: This item was discussed at the January 29, 2001 Board of Commissioners <br />work session and again during a joinment oIn March 6, 2001 Hillsboro gh discussed the31, <br />2001. The Board adopted the agree <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 to be considered by the Board of County Commissioners on November <br />19, 2002. The primary difference with the previous agreement involves setting a threshold for <br />project review of five acres for land use amendments, rezonings, special use permits, <br />conditional use permits and annexations or a project with a 50 unit residential component. <br />These thresholds include both residential and non-residential (i.e. commercial, office, industrial) <br />projects. As with the previous agreement, the area includes the water and sewer service area <br />boundary both in Orange County and Town of Hillsborough jurisdiction. <br />