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. °°~ '7 FncE 563 (c) A point public hearing of th'e Planning Board and the Soard of County Commissioners of Orange County shall hear all testimony and evidence concerning the amendment. Notice for this public hearing shall be given in accordance with section is of the Orange County Zoning Ordinance. (d) Within thirty (30) days of the public hearing referred to in I paragraph (c) above, the Orange County Planning board sha17 make recommendations in the form of a resolution to the County ~ Commissioners aoncerning th.e proposed amendment. Failure to forward a resolution within thirty (30) days constitutes a favorable recommendation. (e) After receipt of the Planning Doard resolution the County i Commissioners may amend the Planned Unit Development Plan, and if ~'~ any amendment is so allowed the applicant(s) and the Chairman of the Orange County Soard of Commissioners shall execute the amended Planned Unit Development Plan and file the amended plan in the County Administrators office with the original plan. Mr. Burnham then presented An Amendment to the Orange County Zoning Ordinance making Sanitary Landfills a Special Uae "ln the present Orange County Zoning Ordinance, sanitary ~. landfills are permitted in Rural Industrial districts. To create a Rural Industrial district strictly for. sanitary landfill use j would not be advisable for at least three reasons: ~ 1. A sanitary landfill is r_ot an industrial use. Tn fact, sanitary landfill operations are incompatible with industrial uses because a sanitary landfill renders property unsuitable j far industrial use. Buildings cannot be safely built on a i sanitary landfill because of settling, gas generation, and ~ other problems. 2. The Rural Industrial zoning would continue after the land I is no longer used for sanitary landfill purposes. No control j over former sanitary landfill land could be exercised by the county and an industrial use incompatible with the surrounding area could be legally moved in. ~. Because of increased demand for land for sanitary landfill purposes it is not 3ust possible but probable that in the future private enterprise will enter the solid waste disposal field and Orange County will be called vn to rezone land for a privately operated landfill. Under the present ordinance this would result in a request for industrial rezoning that, if rezoning were accompli shad, would allow any industrial or landfill us@ for the property in question. This would not be a good situation. There should be roravision for sanitary landfill use only, with regulation and buffering appropriate to that use required. Because of these reasons amendments to the Orange County Zoning Ordinance era suggested that would remove sanitary landfills ea a permitted use under Rural Industrial classifications and would make them a special use under permits issued by the County Commissioners after a Soint public hearing with the County Planning Board. Tha first amendment would strike out the line headed "Sanitary Landfills°' in the table of permitted uses given in section b.l of the Orange County Zoning Ordinance. The second amendment would add a section numbered 10.8 to the Orange County Zoning Ordinance, a suggested text for which follows: Section 10.8 Sanitary Landfills The Orange County Board of County Commissioners shall be empowered to issue Sanitary Landfill Use permits. Proposals to establish a sanitary landfill site may be initiated by the Board of Commissioners, by the Crange County Planning Board, or by petition by any interested persons or governmental agency. All such proposals shall be referred to the Planning Soard for its consideration and recommendation. In no case shall final action be taken to establish a Sanitary landfill site until a duly advertised public hearing is held. 10.8.1 Sanitary Landfill Special Use Permit Procedure 10.8.1.1 Any sanitary landfill site proposal shall be submitted to the Zoning Officer in writing and in complete detail at least 20 days prior to the regular public hearing provided ir_ Section 15.2.2. - w