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44 <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br />AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: June 12, 2007 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. ~- ~ i i <br />SUBJECT• Agricultural Support Enterprises (ASE) <br />DEPARTMENT: Economic Development <br />Planning & Inspections <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />1) Matrix <br />2) Schedule <br />3) Draft Rural Buffer Memo <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) No <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Tina Moon, 210-2595 <br />Noah Ranells, 245-2330 <br />Michael Harvey, 245-2607 <br />PURPOSE: The purpose of this item is to: 1) respond to questions and comments from the May <br />21, 2007 Joint BOCC/Planning Board Work Session on the Agricultural Support Enterprises <br />project, 2) request the Board's endorsement of those concepts, or elements, which staff believe <br />are key to the success of the project, and 3) receive authorization to complete the project in <br />accordance with the schedule provided as Attachment 2. <br />BACKGROUND: At the May 2007 Joint BOCC/Planning Board Work Session, staff presented <br />the Board with an update of an on-going project (currently called Agricultural Support <br />Enterprises) to provide more business opportunities for local farmers and requested the Board's <br />endorsement of three underlining concepts. At previous meetings on this topic, staff presented <br />the Board with colored "matrices" and "color progression charts" showing how new agricultura( <br />uses could fit within the framework of the County's existing land uses. These materials were <br />intended to provide the Board with illustrative examples, a general sense of the types of uses <br />that staff hoped to add to the ordinance, and the type of permitting process that staff believed <br />would be appropriate for each use. <br />Staff shared the most recent matrix with the Board during a February 28, 2005 Work Session, at <br />which time the project was referred to as "Rural Enterprises." While there were specific <br />comments regarding the matrix, the focus of questions at that meeting shifted to broader issues. <br />What were the economic ramifications ofthese uses? How would staff enforce them? How <br />could these uses compatibly occur within suburbanizing areas? Could rural enterprises dovetail <br />with a TDR program? Staff noted changes that Board members requested for specific entries <br />within the matrix, particularly the request to divide the intensive uses into two categories (shown <br />in italics). This change would aAow the Board ample opportunity to review and consider <br />applications for the most intensive uses. Staff presented updates on the project to the Board on <br />May 23, 2005 and May 22, 2006. <br />