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126 <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />PLANNING BOARD <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: April 7, 2010 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 7 <br />.SUBJECT: Upper Eno Watershed Critical Area - Zoning Ordinance and Atlas Amendment <br />and Comprehensive Plan Land Use Element Text and Map Amendment <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections PUBLIC HEARING: (Y /N) Yes <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />1. Proposed Zoning Ordinance Text and <br />Map Amendments (current version — <br />includes exclusion presented at 3/3/10 <br />Planning Board Meeting and map of <br />excluded area) <br />2. Maps Showing Application of Each <br />Criteria <br />3. Information on Natural Areas <br />4. Information on Third Order Streams and <br />Map of Upper Eno Watershed Stream <br />Orders <br />5. Information on Regionality of Water <br />6. Letter from Town of Hillsborough <br />7. March 3, 2010 Planning Board Abstract <br />and Attachments <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Craig Benedict, Director 245 -2592 <br />Perdita Holtz, Planner III 245 -2578 <br />PURPOSE: To make a recommendation to the Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) on <br />the County initiated amendments to certain Sections of the Zoning Ordinance, the Zoning Atlas, <br />and Chapter 5 of the 2030 Comprehensive Plan Land Use Element Text and Map. Specifically, <br />the following portions of the Zoning Ordinance text are proposed for amendment: <br />• Section 4.2.27 (Watershed Protection Overlay Districts) <br />• Section 6.23.3 (Stormwater Infiltration and Detention) <br />• Article 22 (Definitions) <br />Application of the text amendments will result in changes to the Watershed Protection Overlay <br />District boundary depicted on the official Zoning Atlas and on the Land Use Element Map of the <br />2030 Comprehensive Plan. The proposed text changes to the Zoning Ordinance are included in <br />Attachment 1; this text includes the excluded area north West Ten Road as discussed (and <br />voted upon in a "straw vote ") at the March Planning Board meeting. For your use and <br />information, Attachment 7 is the March Planning Board abstract and attachments. <br />BACKGROUND: Please see Attachment 7 for more in -depth Background. At the March <br />Planning Board meeting, the Board conducted a "straw vote" on the majority of criteria that <br />comprise the proposed Critical Area to determine how the Board wished to proceed with this <br />item. The "straw vote" resulted in each considered criteria (maps in Attachments 2.1 through <br />