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ORANGE COUNTY 043 <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />AND <br />PLANNING BOARD <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: August 23, 1999 <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Jim Hinkley X2584 <br />Proposed Zoning Text Amendments <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732 -8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968 -4501 <br />Durham 688 -7331 <br />Mebane (336)227 -2031 <br />PURPOSE: To receive citizen comment on a proposed zoning text amendment requested <br />by Planning Staff. <br />BACKGROUND: <br />Reaues That the Zoning Ordinance text be amended to bring definitions and provisions <br />for Child Care Facilities into agreement with those of the State. <br />Existing Case Prospective child care providers face confusing language differences in the <br />Orange County Zoning Ordinance and respective licensing provisions of the North Carolina <br />General Statutes. Confusion can be generated by the unlike terminology of the provisions of the <br />County and State Regulations. <br />Zoning Ordinance language in Sections 4.3 Permitted Use Table, 6.27 Large Day Care Homes, <br />8.8.16 Day Care Facilities, Article 10 Off - street Parking and Loading, and Article 22 Definitions is <br />dissimilar to that found in Article 7, Chapter 110 of the General Statutes, Child Care Facilities, as <br />amended. <br />Representatives of the NC Child Care Commission, the state licensing agency for child care, and <br />staff of the Planning and Inspections Department met in Planning Offices on Wednesday, May 26, <br />1999, to discuss the difference in language between County and State regulations for child care. <br />Consensus of the group is that amending the language of the child care provisions and definitions <br />