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Resolution # 2015-066
ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
A RESOLUTION AMENDING THE JOINT PLANNING AGREEMENT REGARDING
TRANSITION AREA RESIDENT REPRESENTATION ON THE TOWN OF CHAPEL
HILL'S PLANNING COMMISSION AND BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT
WHEREAS, Orange County, the Town of Chapel Hill, and the Town of Carrboro
entered into a Joint Planning Agreement originally dated September 22, 1987 and
amended from time to time, and
WHEREAS, the Joint Planning Agreement calls for Transition Area resident
representation on the two Towns' Planning Board/Commission and Board of
Adjustment, and
WHEREAS, on October 15, 2014, the Town of Chapel Hill enacted an Ordinance
expanding the Town's Extraterritorial Jurisdiction (ETJ) area by reducing the Joint
Planning Area (JPA), and
WHEREAS, the Town of Chapel Hill has proposed amendments to the Joint
Planning Agreement regarding Transition Area resident representation on its
Planning Commission and Board of Adjustment, and
WHEREAS, a joint public hearing regarding the proposed Joint Planning Agreement
amendments was held on October 15, 2015, in accordance with the requirements of
the Joint Planning Agreement, and
NOW THEREFORE, the Board of Commissioners of Orange County hereby resolves
that the Joint Planning Agreement be amended as follows:
(Underline indicates proposed new text, strike through indicates proposed deleted text)
Section 27 Representation of Transition Area Residents
Chapel Hill: Chapel Hill shall revise its Land Use Development Ordinance to
provide that in addition to one Extraterritorial Jurisdiction representative
on the Planning Board and Board of Adiustment that the County
Commission appoints one additional representative from the Joint
Planning Area or the Extraterritorial Jurisdiction If an appointment by
the County Commission is unable to be secured within 90 days of a
vacancy, the Town Council may fill the vacant seat with a Chapel Hill
resident. Chapel Hill shall notify Orange County of any vacancies for
which Orange County is to make an appointment within ten days of a
vacancy. At the request of the County Commission the Town Council
may extend the 90 day time limit.
Carrboro: Carrboro shall revise its Land Use Ordinance to provide that at least
one resident of Town's Transition area shall be appointed to the Town's
respective planning board and board of adjustment in the same manner as
representation of extraterritorial planning area residents is provided for in the
Town's ordinance.
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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT the amendments to the Joint Planning Agreement
shall become effective upon adoption by the governing bodies of Orange County,
Chapel Hill, and Carrboro.
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Upon motio of Commissioner seconded by
Comm ssioner , the foregoing resolution was adopted this
day of , 2015.
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 , 2015 as relates in any
way to the adoption of the foregoing and that said proceedings are recorded in the
minutes of the said Board.
WITNESS my hand and the seal of said County, this day of
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