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Orange County Board of County Commissioners 5 <br />Z -04 -98 Agenda Abstract - <br />Orange County Planning Board Findings of Fact <br />The application must comply with all requirements specified in ARTICLE 20 - <br />SPECIFIC STANDARDS FOR EVALUATION /REZONING. Those requirements include: <br />( "YES" indicates compliance "NO" indicates non - compliance) <br />REQUIRED FINDINGS <br />20.3.2a) Map showing affected <br />property at a scale of not less than <br />1"=1 00' nor more than 1 " =20'. <br />PLANNING STAFF FINDING: <br />PLANNING STAFF FINDING: YES <br />YES <br />20.3.2a) Legal description of <br />property. <br />PLANNING STAFF FINDING: <br />PLANNING BOARD FINDING: <br />EVIDENCE SUBMITTED TO SUPPORT <br />FINDINGS <br />As part of the application, the applicants <br />have submitted a plat of the subject <br />property at 1 " =100' scale. <br />As part of the application, the applicants <br />have submitted a legal description of the <br />YES subject property. <br />YES <br />20.3.2 c) Explanation of alleged <br />error, if any, to be corrected by <br />proposed amendment. <br />PLANNING STAFF FINDING: NO <br />PLANNING BOARD FINDING: NO <br />20.3.2d) Changed conditions, if <br />any, which make amendment <br />reasonably necessary to promote <br />public health, safety and general <br />welfare. <br />PLANNING STAFF FINDING: NO <br />PLANNING BOARD FINDING: NO <br />The Planning Board finds no error in the <br />1996 expansion of the 1 -85 / Buckhorn <br />Road EDD or in limiting that EDD to <br />Primary Development Areas. The area <br />zoned for the EDD meets all criteria <br />as given in Article IV, Section 4.2.11. <br />Allowing residential development of <br />any large tract would defeat the <br />purpose of the district; the County <br />has limited land designated for <br />commercial and industrial purposes <br />and this is a strategic location for <br />those uses. The application does not <br />allege that there is an error in the <br />Zoning Atlas. (The application does <br />state that the 1996 Zoning Atlas <br />Amendment was "too harsh without a <br />plan for city water & sewage.) <br />The EDD safeguards the area for the <br />long range plan for light industrial <br />and commercial uses that will <br />probably not happen in this area for <br />another ten years. There has been <br />no pressure for residential <br />development in this area. The <br />application makes no mention of <br />changing conditions within the area. <br />