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Home My WebLink AboutRES-2014-037 Resolution Amending Joint Planning Land Use Plan and Joint Planning Agreement - Clarify Density and Required Minimum Lot Size(s) and Allow For Cluster Subdivisions Throughout the Rural Buffer Resolution #.-Res. 2014-037 (✓ A RESOLUTION AMENDING THE JOINT PLANNING LAND USE PLAN AND JOINT PLANNING AGREEMENT MODIFYING LANGUAGE TO ENSURE AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES ARE ALLOWED THROUGHOUT THE RURAL BUFFER; CLARIFY DENSITY AND REQUIRED MINIMUM LOT SIZE(S); AND ALLOW FOR CLUSTER SUBDIVISIONS THROUGHOUT THE RURAL BUFFER WHEREAS, Orange County, the Town of Chapel Hill, and the Town of Carrboro have engaged in a cooperative planning effort for the area known as the Rural Buffer as detailed within a Joint Planning Land Use Plan (hereafter `the Plan), adopted October 13, 1986, and amended from time to time, and WHEREAS, the administration of this Joint Planning Land Use Plan is laid out within the Joint Planning Agreement (hereafter `Agreement'), originally adopted on September 22, 1987, and amended from time to time, and WHEREAS, Orange County initiated amendments to the Plan and Agreement seeking to ensure agricultural activities are allowed throughout the area, clarify density and minimum lot size requirements, and ensure the viability of cluster subdivisions in the area covered by the Plan and Agreement, and WHEREAS, these amendments to the Plan and Agreement are necessary to ensure consistency with the County's existing land use management program, and WHEREAS, a joint public hearing regarding the proposed Joint Planning Land Use Plan and Agreement amendments was held on March 27, 2014, in accordance with the requirements of the Joint Planning Agreement. NOW THEREFORE, the Board of Commissioners of Orange County hereby resolves that the Joint Planning Land Use Plan and Agreement be amended shown on the attached pages. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT the amendments to the Joint Planning Land Use Plan and Agreement shall become effective upon adoption by the governing bodies of Orange County, Chapel Hill, and Carrboro. r Upon motion Commissioner r _ � seconded by Commissioner e foregoing resolution was adopted this .� day of 2014. 1 I, Donna S. Baker, Clerk to the Board of Commissioners for Orange County, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing is a true copy of so much of the proceedings of said Board at a meeting held on 3 2014 as relates in any way to the adoption of the foregoing and th said proceedings are recorded in the minutes of the said Board. a WITNESS my hand and the seal of said County, this �0 day o 2014. 4tx;�i� t� SEAL Clerk to the Boar of Commissioners 0 ;ortb cff�c ®Sla'oe a SOU f 17 5?