Buckhorn Area Study

Click here for above map link

Following the public outreach meeting on May 17, 2021 and the Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) Business Meeting on June 1, 2021, Orange County Planning was asked to create a site that would contain information about the ongoing projects in western Orange County.  Below are links to several of the materials from meetings related to this project:

• To view the PowerPoint presentation from the May 17 Public Outreach Meeting, please click here.
• To view the video from the May 17 Public Outreach Meeting, please click here.
  1. You will need to use the following passcode to view the video, which you can copy and paste directly from here: ^%8MzB.=
• In order to access a digital copy of the most-recent version of the Buckhorn Area Plan Study from December 2020, please click here.
• In order to access a digital copy of the FAQ document for the Buckhorn Area Study and presented to the BOCC at their June 1, 2021 Business Meeting, please click here.
• Please click here to review a summary of Orange County’s Watershed Program.

Mebane has a site that is dedicated to their development including the projects that are located in Orange County.  To see these developments and where they are along the development continuum, please click here.  The site contains an interactive map and brief descriptions of each of the projects.

To access the agenda materials for Mebane’s City Council, please click here.  Please note that the agendas are regularly updated.

Below is a table of annexations that have taken place in western Orange County over the past few years up through the present:

It is important to note that this table captures the annexations that originate from both Orange County and from Mebane’s Extra-Territorial Jurisdiction (ETJ).   Projects whose previous zoning was “Orange County” had an Orange County zoning designation and developed under the Orange County Unified Development Ordinance (UDO); conversely, projects whose zoning was “ETJ” had a Mebane zoning designation and were intended to eventually be annexed into Mebane’s incorporated area.

The above table shares the split of what proportion of the annexations were previously zoned as Mebane ETJ vs. the proportion that were previously zoned in Orange County.  This table accounts for all of the data available since 2013.