Article: Chapel Hill, N.C., receives approval to buy county land.

Byline: Rob Shapard

Sep. 17--CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- Town officials now have the authority to spend money on land they want to preserve as open space that lies outside the town's jurisdiction.

Chapel Hill currently doesn't have any plans to buy land for open space out in the county. But the Town Council agreed earlier this year to ask the N.C. General Assembly for that authority, and state legislators granted it in a bill approved during the legislature's most recent session.

Previously, the town could go as far out as its "extraterritorial jurisdiction" -- a ring of land bordering Chapel Hill that's ticketed for eventual annexation -- to make ...

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