File #: 15-0018    Name:
Type: Agendas Status: Agenda Ready
File created: 1/21/2015 In control: Board of Aldermen
On agenda: 1/27/2015 Final action:
Title: Continued Discussion on Joint Planning Public Hearing Item - Amendments to Allow for the Possibility of Locating Agricultural Support Enterprises in the Rural Buffer PURPOSE: The purpose of this item is to continue the proposed joint planning area amendments in follow-up to the Assembly of Governments meeting held on November 19th. Possible modifications to the structure for approving the amendments have been identified and discussed. These amendments are necessary in order for Orange County to approve proposed text amendments to its Unified Development Ordinance that will allow the new uses to occur within the Rural Buffer.
Attachments: 1. Attachment A - 10-14-14 resolution, 2. Attachment B - Land Uses in the Rural Buffer updated 102114, 3. Attachment C- Memo to C-boro PB 050914, 4. Attachment D - Excerpt adopted minutes AOG - 11/21/13, 5. Attachment E - Approved minutes 2/24/14 UDO Public Hearing, 6. Attachment F - Excerpt adopted minutes - JPA Hearing - 3/27/14, 7. Attachment G - Board of Aldermen Minutes Excerpt - 6/3/14, 8. Attachment H - Excerpt minutes BOCC JPA amendments - 6/3/14, 9. Attachment I - Excerpt minutes - 9/9/14, 10. Attachment J - Excerpt minutes - 10/14/14, 11. Attachment K - Excerpt draft minutes AOG - 11/19/14, 12. Attachment L - Response to RB Projections Question 010515, 13. Attachment M - Alderman Slade comments with OC Staff Response, 14. Attachment N - Slade Proposed language 1-23-15.pdf
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Continued Discussion on Joint Planning Public Hearing Item - Amendments to Allow for the Possibility of Locating Agricultural Support Enterprises in the Rural Buffer

PURPOSE: The purpose of this item is to continue the proposed joint planning area amendments in follow-up to the Assembly of Governments meeting held on November 19th. Possible modifications to the structure for approving the amendments have been identified and discussed. These amendments are necessary in order for Orange County to approve proposed text amendments to its Unified Development Ordinance that will allow the new uses to occur within the Rural Buffer.
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DEPARTMENT: Planning

CONTACT INFORMATION: Patricia McGuire - 919-918-7327; pmcguire@townofcarrboro.org; Christina Moon - 919-918-7325 - cmoon@townofcarrboro.org; Perdita Holtz - 919-245-2578 - pholtz@orangecountync.gov

INFORMATION: The Town of Carrboro has been considering Orange County's proposed amendments to the Joint Planning Agreement since the item was presented at the March 27, 2014 joint public hearing. Consideration by Orange County and Chapel Hill has been underway as well. During the most recent discussion, which took place at the Assembly of Governments (AOG) on November 19, 2014, the consensus was that Carrboro would consider the topic again, particularly the concerns and opposition expressed in relation the sunset clause, and then share the outcome of its efforts with JPA partners in Orange County and Chapel Hill. The agenda abstract from the AOG meeting noted possible alternative timing/intensity measures related to limiting the new agricultural support enterprises. Those measures are provided here:
1. Consider instituting a timing mechanism of some sort, e.g., only "x" number of ASE uses
can be established in the Rural Buffer each calendar year (or some other timeframe)
2. Consider instituting an acreage mechanism of some sort, e.g., only "x" number of acres
may be used for ASE us...

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