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ORANGE COUNTY 063 <br />BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br />AND <br />ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING BOARD <br />PUBLIC HEARING AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: August 23, 1999 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. <br />SUBJECT: Orange County Subdivision Regulations Text Amendments <br />Section IV -13-10 Flexible Development <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections PUBLIC HEARING: (Y /N) Yes <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />1) Existing Ordinance Provisions with <br />Proposed Amendments and Staff Notes <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Karen Lincoln - Extension 2583 <br />Craig Benedict - Extension 2592 <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 proposed amendments to the Orange County SubdNision <br />Regulations , Section IV -B-10 . These proposed amendments were not presented at the May 24, 1999, Public <br />Hearing. <br />BACKGROUND: <br />Request: Amendments to the Orange County Subdivision Regulations, Section IV -B -10 (Flexible <br />Development), D.1 Estate Lot Option and D.3 Cluster Option (Conservation /Cluster Option) propose <br />changes to: • provide incentives for developers to use the estate lot option and <br />• clarify language pertaining to the transfer of density within a cluster. <br />Proposed revisions to Section IV -13-10, D.1 Estate Lot Option address comments from the May 24, <br />1999. Public Hearing at which proposed changes to flexible development provisions were heard. <br />Location: The amendments, if adopted, will apply to the entirety of Orange County lying outside of <br />the Rural Buffer and outside the municipalities and their extra - territorial jurisdictions, if any. <br />Existing and Proposed Conditions <br />Existing: • None of 31 major subdivision concept plan applications accepted by the <br />Planning Department from July 1, 1996, the effective date for flexible development provisions, <br />through June, 1999, has used the estate lot option of flexible development <br />• Language in Section IV -13-10, D.3 Cluster Option (conservation/cluster) allows <br />transfer of density within the subdivided tract in a cluster development and does not make <br />clear that such transfers of density may not increase the allowable density within a protected <br />watershed. <br />g:l txtamend \flexdev\phaugab.doc\&12 -99Ud <br />