Buckhorn Area Study

Public Outreach Meetings in October 2021

On Tuesday, October 12 from 1:00 - 5:00 PM, the Orange County Planning Department will be on-site at the Efland-Cheeks Community Center for an In-Person Open House.  Individuals interested in attending may drop in anytime during this timeframe to ask questions of Planning staff.  Please note that COVID precautions will be in place (including social distancing, mask wearing and hand sanitizing), so please bring a mask to wear.

 On Wednesday, October 13 from 6:00 - 7:30 PM, the Orange County Planning Department will host a Zoom Q&A meeting.  After a brief welcome by members of the Board of County Commissioners, Planning staff will share information about the area.  There will be no formal presentation by staff, and instead, there will be an opportunity for in-depth discussions with participants and staff.  

To view the meeting from Wednesday, October 13, please click here.

To view the table of permitted uses for the Buckhorn Economic Development District (EDD), please click here.

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.

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.