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7W <br />'ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS AND PLANNING BOARD <br />PUBLIC HEARING AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: November 21, 2005 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. C.3.b <br />SUBJECT: Child Day Care Facilities Zoning Text Amendments <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections PUBLIC HEARING: (Y /N) [Y� <br />ATTACHMENTS: <br />1. An ordinance amending the Orange INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />County Zoning Ordinance Craig Benedict, 245 2592 <br />2. Inventory of Day Care Facilities Glenn Bowles, 245 2577 <br />3. Inventory of Centers for 3 — 12 Children <br />Located in a Residence <br />4. Map of Licensed Child Day Care Facilities <br />in Orange County <br />PURPOSE: To consider proposed amendments to the zoning ordinance regarding child day <br />care facilities. <br />BACKGROUND: State administrative laws and regulation ns regarding child day -care facilities <br />have continued to evolve and change since the County Board last amended its zoning <br />regulations in 1991. Planning staff met with representatives of the North Carolina Division of <br />Child Development in May 1999 and again on July 21, 2005 to discuss the differences in <br />language between Orange County and State child day care regulations. Consensus of the <br />groups is that amending the language of the child care provisions and definitions of the Zoning <br />Ordinance is needed to provide consistency in laws for day care providers, users of day care <br />facilities and the general public. The attached zoning text amendments bring the definitions <br />and provisions for Child Care Facilities in Orange County into agreement with those of the <br />State. <br />Language differences in the Orange County Zoning Ordinance and respective licensing <br />provisions of the North Carolina General Statutes results from use of unlike terminology and <br />standards. Zoning Ordinance. language in Sections 4.3 Permitted Use Table, 6.27 Large Day <br />Care Homes, 8.8.16 Day Care Facilities, Section 10.4 Off - Street Parking Requirements, and <br />Article 22 Definitions are dissimilar to that found in Article 7, Chapter 110 of the North Carolina <br />General Statutes, Child Care Facilities, as amended. Staff has attached for reference the <br />proposed amendments addressing these revisions. <br />FINANCIAL IMPACT No financial impact at this time with human resources being used from <br />existing department staffs.. <br />C;::C'aorrr<:Ix::�asi�•e 3'L��u�iu;I;io�C;l!v ?�: ^rJi}i ?irl�lic Fic:ariia�e'N�i� �t'• C :hilcil3ayt'arek;rcLs':ahst.act (e 1- i�..r�:h�i <br />