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N TRODUCTION <br /> WORK PROGRAM AND SCHEDULE <br /> WORK PROGRAM <br /> The Town of Hillsborough retained Clarion <br /> Associates, a zoning, planning, and growth Estimated Project Schedule <br /> management consulting firm with offices in North <br /> Carolina, Florida, and Colorado to undertake . Annotated Outline November,2009 <br /> preparation of a new Unified Development <br /> Ordinance for the town. • Draft UDO April,-2010 <br /> The work program for the Unified Development <br /> Ordinance project involves three main tasks. They • Public Review/Hearing May/June,2010 <br /> are: <br /> • Task 1: Project Initiation(completed), <br /> • Task 2: Annotated Outline(current task); <br /> • Task 3: Draft Unified Development Ordinance(UDO). <br /> Task 1, Project Initi ation and S is completed. It involved review and evaluation of the town's planning documents, <br /> I* <br /> current zoning and subdivision regulations, and other relevant town documents; discussions with town staff, and interviews <br /> with citizens, developers, and other stakeholders about goals for the *ect pro and what is and is not working with the existing <br /> regulations. <br /> This Annotated Outline is the product of Task 2. It reviews the community's goals and major themes that need to be <br /> addressed in the code revision project, and options for achieving those goals. It serves as a basis to frame community <br /> discussion about what structural procedural and substantive changes need to be made during the UDO update project It is <br /> intended to crystallize the most important themes or issues that need to be addressed. The Annotated Outline includes a <br /> detailed outline of the new UDO if the goals or major themes identified in the Issues Summary are implemented in the new <br /> code. It includes an article-by-article outline of the new Unified Development Ordinance and a textual explanation of the <br /> purpose and nature of each article and section. After review and input on the Annotated Outline, the Clarion team will beg-in <br /> drafting the Unified Development Ordinance in Task 3. <br /> In Task 3 the new code document will be drafted and introduced to the public. The template for the new Unified <br /> Development Ordinance will be consistent with the Annotated Outline and any other directions provided to the Clarion team <br /> by the town. Task 3 involves the actual drafting of the new Unified Development Ordinance. The new ordinance is a <br /> substantial re-organization of a majority of the town's current zoning ordinance and subdivision regulations, along with the <br /> addition of some new provisions. The template for the new ordinance will be consistent with the Annotated Outline portion <br /> of this report and any other directions provided to the Clarion team by the town. <br /> SCHEDULE <br /> The Unified Development Ord inance project began in late summer of 2009, and is expected to be complete by mid-2010. <br /> Task 1, Project Initiation, has been completed. This document,the Annotated Outline, is the work product produced in Task <br /> 2. It will be considered by the Planning Board, and Town Board of Commissioners in November 2 The input received <br /> during these meetings is used in the d evelopment of the new ordinance over the following six months. Following completion <br /> of the draft of the Unified Development Ordinance,public hearings on the new ordinance will be conducted. <br /> Hillsborough,North Carolina <br /> Unified Development Ordinance I Draft Annotated Outline Page 1 <br /> November,2009 <br />