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ORJO - ada 7 -ZO3 <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS /%O 0 <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: October 9, 2007 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. (o - -P <br />SUBJECT: Zoning Ordinance Text and Map Amendments - Proposed Efland- Cheeks <br />Highway 70 Corridor Zoning Overlay District and Amendment to Section 6.23.3 <br />of the Zoning Ordinance pertaining to Impervious Surface Ratio Regulations <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning Department PUBLIC HEARING: (Y /N) NO <br />ATTACHMENTS: <br />1. Proposed Zoning Ordinance Text <br />Amendments <br />2. Map Depicting Proposed Boundaries of <br />ECOD <br />3. Q&A Document that was included with <br />Notification Letter <br />4. Staff Responses to Comments and <br />Questions made at the August 27, 2007 <br />Quarterly Public Hearing <br />5. Draft Planning Board Minutes of 9/5/07 <br />Meeting (excerpt of this item only) <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Craig Benedict, Director, (919) 245 -2592 <br />Perdita Holtz, Special Projects Planner, <br />(919) 245 -2611 <br />Michael Harvey, Zoning Enforcement <br />Officer, (910) 245 -2607 <br />PURPOSE: To consider making text and map amendments to the Zoning Ordinance and <br />Zoning Atlas regarding a proposed new zoning overlay district - Efland- Cheeks Highway 70 <br />Corridor Overlay District (ECOD) - and to consider amending impervious surface limits <br />prescribed in Section 6.23.3 of the Zoning Ordinance in regards to the Upper Eno and Back <br />Creek Protected Watersheds. <br />BACKGROUND: One of the recommendations of the adopted Efland- Mebane Small Area Plan <br />(EMSAP) is to allow commercial development in certain areas along the Highway 70 corridor <br />and to allow for conversion of some residential structures to office type uses. A Land Use <br />Element text amendment regarding 10 -Year Transition areas was heard at the May 21, 2007 <br />Quarterly Public Hearing and was adopted by the BOCC at the August 21, 2007 BOCC meeting. <br />This Zoning text and map amendment is the next step towards allowing non - residential uses in <br />specific areas along the Highway 70 corridor. This is a smaller scale economic development <br />opportunity that is being expanded in appropriate areas. <br />