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Amendments to the Water and Sewer Management, Planning, and Boundary Agreement (WASMPBA)
PURPOSE: The purpose of this item is to provide possible amendments to the WASMPBA.
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DEPARTMENT: Planning
CONTACT INFORMATION: Trish McGuire, pmcguire@townofcarrboro.org, 919-918-7327
INFORMATION: The Water and Sewer Management, Planning, and Boundary Agreement is an agreement signed in 2001 between Orange County, the Orange Water and Sewer Authority (OWASA), and the Towns of Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and Hillsborough. The agreement (included for reference purposes as Attachment C) provides a comprehensive county-wide system of utility service areas upon which signatory entities could rely when making decisions related to issues such as planning, land use, annexation, zoning, and growth management.
Possible amendments to the WASMPBA map and the Joint Planning Agreement were presented to the Board of Aldermen in February. Those amendments included JPA changes in Chapel Hill and Carrboro and WASMPBA amendments in Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and Hillsborough. WASMPBA amendments for Carrboro and Hillsborough are included at this time and include areas south of the Hillsborough Economic Development District (EDD) and areas in the vicinity of Smith Level Road in the Town of Carrboro's Extraterritorial Jurisdiction. Town of Chapel Hill staff are studying the possible amendments in the Millhouse Road area and are not ready to move forward.
Orange County/Hillsborough EDD Area
The proposed amendments in the Hillsborough EDD Area include:
* Designating 87.5 acres "Primary Service Area". This area is currently "Hillsborough Long-Term Interest Area". Designating the area "Primary Service Area" would allow extension of public water and sewer systems into the area.
Orange County has received a Master Plan Development conditional zoning application that includes a large portion of the area proposed to become "Primary Service Area" (the area east of Old Highway 86)....
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