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Northern Transition Area Advisory Committee
PURPOSE: The purpose of this agenda item is for the Board of Aldermen to receive an update on Northern Transition Area Advisory Committee activities.
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DEPARTMENT: Planning
CONTACT INFORMATION: Jeff Kleaveland - 919-918-7332, jkleaveland@townofcarrboro.org.
INFORMATION: Amy Jeroloman, Northern Transition Area Advisory Committee (NTAAC) Chair, will provide the update.
Section 15-27 of the Land Use Ordinance describes the NTAAC. Subsections (a) and (h), excerpted below, describe the geographic area and commission makeup, and powers and duties:
(a) There shall be a Northern Transition Area Advisory Committee consisting of five members, three appointed by the Orange County Board of Commissioners and two by the Board of Aldermen. If the Board of Commissioners fails to make these appointments within ninety days after receiving a resolution from the Board of Aldermen requesting that they be made, the Board of Aldermen may make them. All members shall be residents of the Northern Transition Area. For the purposes of this section, the Northern Transition Area shall include those unannexed portions of the Northern Study Area. The Northern Study Area is defined as follows:
The boundaries of this area are Carrboro's joint planning jurisdiction line to the north and Carrboro's Town limits to the south. The Carrboro/Chapel Hill joint planning jurisdiction line serves as the boundary to the east. It begins north of Eubanks Road, follows Rogers Road to Homestead, then proceeds southwest on Homestead road to High School Road and finally turns south and east to the railroad right-of-way. A primary ridge line serves as the northwest boundary line just east of Union Grove Church Road down to Dairyland Road, where the road serves as the boundary heading southeast until it intersects, and Old NC 86 serves as the boundary then turning southeast and running along Hillsborough Road to Greensboro Street.
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