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Request for Orange County to Agree with Extension of Town's Extraterritorial Jurisdiction
PURPOSE: The purpose of this item is for the Board of Aldermen to consider submitting a request to the Orange County Board of County Commissioners seeking agreement on the extension of the Town's extraterritorial boundary along the north side of NC Highway 54 West.
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DEPARTMENT: Planning
CONTACT INFORMATION: Trish McGuire, pmcguire@townofcarrboro.org, 919-918-7327
INFORMATION: The Board of Aldermen has been focused on improving the opportunities for use of the commercial properties along NC Highway 54 West for several years. Extending the Town's extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ) in order to allow the town to establish uniform zoning on five commercially zoned parcels that are currently split between ETJ and Rural Buffer has been identified as an important strategy in increasing business development there. The portions of the parcels located immediately adjacent to the highway are currently within Carrboro's ETJ while the northern portion of the parcels is designated as Rural Buffer. The change under consideration would shift the ETJ line slightly further north to capture the entirety of the parcels as shown in the illustration below.
ETJ authority is provided in NCGS 160A-360 (Attachment B), and subsection (e) applies in this instance:
No city may hereafter extend its extraterritorial powers under this Article into any area for which the county at that time has adopted and is enforcing a zoning ordinance and subdivision regulations and within which it is enforcing the State Building Code. However, the city may do so where the county is not exercising all three of these powers, or when the city and the county have agreed upon the area within which each will exercise the powers conferred by this Article.
In 2014, Orange County granted an extension of Chapel Hill's ETJ to facilitate community development funding for the Rogers Road sewer proj...
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