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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING BOARD <br />PUBLIC HEARING AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: May 24, 1999 <br />Agenda Abstract <br />Item # C 1 & 2 <br />SUBJECT: TEXT AMENDMENTS TO THE FLEXIBLE DEVELOPMENT PROVISIONS OF THE <br />ORANGE COUNTY ZONING ORDINANCE AND THE ORANGE COUNTY SUBDIVISION <br />REGULATIONS <br />DEPARTMENT: PLANNING PUBLIC HEARING: X Yes No <br />BUDGET AMENDMENT REQUIRED: Yes- X No . <br />ATTACHMENTS: INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Karen Lincoln, Extension 2583 <br />Proposed Amendments with PHONE NUMBERS: <br />Staff Notes Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Mebane 227-2031 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Chapel Hill 967-9251 <br />PURPOSE: To receive public comment on proposed text amendments to the Orange <br />County Zoning Orolinance and Orange County Subdivision Regulations <br />provisions for flexible development. <br />No decision is made by either the Planning Board or the Board of County <br />Commissioners at the public hearing. <br />BACKGROUND: Flexible development provisions were adopted in May, 1996, to foster more <br />creative subdivision design that would preserve agricultural and forestry <br />lands, natural and cultural features, and rural community character that might <br />be lost through conventional subdivision .methods.. One long-range <br />intention/goal of preserving those areas was to provide a contiguous, county- <br />wide network of open space. <br />Yearly reports tracking use of flexible development options have indicated <br />that the conservation approach is the most commonly used option of flexible <br />development subdivisions. Such subdivisions have not demonstrated any <br />g:\may99ph\flexdev.not\5-17-99Vc1 <br />