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236 <br />Attachment 8 <br />Provide recommendations for subsequent phases of UDO amendments and 2030 <br />Comprehensive Plan implementation. <br />Attachment 1 is a "question & answer" document about the UDO. The Planning Board <br />suggested most of the questions and Planning staff provided responses. <br />First Draft <br />The first draft of the UDO was released on August 9, 2010 and comments were accepted until <br />September 20, 2010. During those six weeks, the BOCC held two work sessions on the UDO <br />(August 23 and September 17). The Planning Board also reviewed the UDO at two of its <br />meetings during this time period (August 18 and September 1). Minutes for all of these <br />meetings are available on the Planning Department's UDO website: <br />http: / /www.co.orange.nc.us /planning /UDO.asp. Attachment 2 is a document containing <br />comments received on the first draft of the UDO, including public comments, and includes <br />notations of how the comment was treated by staff. <br />Staff has prepared an Issue Paper for topics raised at the BOCC work sessions (see <br />Attachment 6). The topics of the Issue Paper are: <br />• Modification of Planning Board duties <br />• Processing Letters of Map Revision (LOMR) <br />• Regulations governing the vacation of subdivision plats <br />• Time line for the re- submittal of withdrawn development proposals <br />Public Input Opportunities <br />Several public meetings were held during the UDO development process as follows: <br />• October 19, 2009 • June 14, 2010 <br />• October 22, 2009 • June 16, 2010 <br />• November 2, 2009 • September 8, 2010 <br />(Joint Advisory Board meeting) <br />Additionally, a public information meeting will be held on November 17, 2010. Further <br />information on all of these meetings is available on the UDO website. <br />Subsequent Phases <br />Naturally, during development and review of the initial UDO there were and will be tendencies to <br />provide comments and ideas in areas where changes are not being made during this project <br />phase. In these cases, comments and ideas have been documented for consideration in future <br />phases of UDO amendments. A list of ideas suggested to date is compiled in Attachment 3. <br />It is a primary task of the County's Consultant, Clarion Associates, to document comments and <br />provide formal recommendations to the County on subsequent phases of UDO amendments. <br />These recommendations will be forthcoming after the public hearing. <br />Proposed Unified Development Ordinance <br />The proposed UDO is approximately 800 pages in length and combines all existing land <br />development regulations under one cover. Although a sizeable document, staff has "tracked" <br />changes to enable the reader to identify new text from existing as quickly and easily as possible. <br />Furthermore, a comparative table (Attachment 4) has been prepared as a tool for anyone <br />