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0,64 <br />Proposed: Proposed amendments: <br />• Reduce minimum lot size from 4.0 acres to 3.0 acres with average lot size of 3.5 acres; <br />• Provide a 150 ft. buffer along state maintained roads adjacent to subdivision <br />boundaries; <br />• Restrict lot access to internal subdivision roads; and <br />• Clarify that any transfer of density within a cluster development may not increase <br />density allowed by the zoning ordinance within protected watersheds and their critical <br />areas. <br />An attached document giving existing ordinance language and proposed amendments contains staff <br />annotation for each proposed amendment. <br />Development Process. Schedule. and Action <br />• Public Hearing August 23, 1999: No decision is made on the proposed amendments by <br />either the Planning Board or the Board of County Commissioners at the public hearing. <br />• First Action: Planning Board Recommendation: The Planning Board has 75 days within <br />which to prepare and submit a recommendation to the Board of County Commissioners. <br />Failure of the Planning Board to submit a recommendation within the required time shall be <br />considered as a favorable recommendation. <br />• Final Action: Board of Commissioners to consider amendments to the Orange County <br />Zoning Ordinance. <br />FINANCIAL IMPACT: Not applicable. <br />RECOMMENDATION(S): Planning Staff Recommendation: Approval of the proposed <br />amendments as given in the attached document. <br />Administration Recommendation: Proposed amendments be referred to the Planning <br />Board for a recommendation to be returned to the Board of Commissioners no sooner than <br />September 7, 1999. <br />Note: Amendments to the subdivision regulations are legislative decisions (legislative <br />public hearing rules apply). <br />n• \4v4arnen�i \Auvrle�ilnhaunah AnAR- 19_QQX -I <br />