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3 Proposed Amendments to the Joint Planning Agreement Concerning Review Time Limits The Joint Planning Agreement addresses intergovernmental review of proposed ordinance amendments in the Transition Areas and Rural Buffer and-establishes time frames for review to occur. Review times vary from ten (10) days (with the concurrence of the Orange County Manager) to thirty (30) days. Proposed amendments to the Joint Planning Agreement would establish a consistent time of sixty (60) days throughout. Proposed text revisions affecting review times are printed below with text proposed for deletion shown in st~il~~et~gl3 and that for addition in bold underline. Section 2.6 .Teat and Map Amendments A. Proposed amendments to the Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan and/or the Joint Planning Area Land Use Map may be initiated by (i) Orange County or (ii) the Towns or any other party by filing a request for such an amendment with Orange County. Any petition or request to amend the Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan received by the County shall be referred to the respective Towns. No such amendment may become effective until after it has been adopted by Orange County, Chapel Hill and Carrboro following a joint public hearing by all three governing bodies. B. Except as provided herein, proposed amendments to the text of the Orange County Zoning and Subdivision Ordinances that aze applicable within the Rural Buffer as well as proposed changes in zoning district classifications (i.e., zoning map changes) that affect property within the Rural Buffer shall be initiated and adopted in accordance with the procedures set forth in those County ordinances. All such proposals that affect the CHJDA shall be referred to Chapel Hill for review and recommendation, and all such proposed amendments that affect the CJDA shall be referred to Carrboro for review and recommendation. Orange County may not adopt such proposed amendments until the respective Towns have made their