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f=i ~ ~~d ~ <br />O ~ ,0 -~©q- b31 <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS AND <br />PLANNING BOARD <br />QUARTERLY PUBLIC HEARING ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: May 18, 2009 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. c,- 3 <br />SUBJECT: Zoning Ordinance Text Amendment Relating to the Development of Non- <br />residential Land Uses within Certain Watershed Overlay Districts <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) Yes <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />1. Ordinance Amendment Resolution .Name Phone Number <br />2. Map of Cedar Grove Rural Community Craig Benedict, Director 245-2592 <br />Activity Node Michael .D. Harvey, Planner 245-2607 <br />PURPOSE: To hold a public hearing on a staff generated Zoning Ordinance Text Amendment <br />to modify existing regulations relating to the development of non-residential land uses within <br />certain watershed overlay districts. Specifically, staff is proposing an amendment that would <br />allow the development of non-residential land uses within certain critical and protected <br />watershed overlay districts in instances where such areas are also located within previously <br />identified Rural Community Activity Nodes. <br />BACKGROUND: The Orange County Zoning Ordinance (hereafter `the Ordinance'), specifically <br />Section 6.23.1, establishes development restrictions within the various watershed overlay districts, <br />reading as follows: <br />ISTRICT LAND USE RESTRICTIONS <br />-CA <br />N-PW o new landfills are permitted. <br /> <br />ANE-CA No commercial or industrial uses are permitted. <br /> <br />-ENO-CA No new golf courses are permitted <br />LJNIV-CA <br />ANE-CA No residual (sludge) application is permitted. <br />-ENO-CA <br />CANE-PW <br />-ENO-PW <br />CO-PW <br />ITTLE-PW No discharging landfills are permitted. Industrial use is limited to nonhazardous <br /> <br />ACK-PW light industrial uses chazacterized by low water use (less than 10,000 gpd, excludin <br /> <br />LAT-PW domestic water (25 gpd per employee) and water used for heating and air <br />W-PW conditioning). . <br />L-ENO-PW <br />ORDAN-PW <br />