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3 <br />Additional Public Outreach <br />As listed on the BOCC- approved schedule in Attachment 1, the County Manager sent a letter in <br />December to the municipal managers inviting requests for presentations on the LIDO at <br />municipal meetings. Only the Town of Carrboro requested a presentation and Planning staff <br />made a presentation to the Town on January 18. Written comments from municipalities were <br />requested by 5:00 p.m. on February 2, 2011. To date, no written comments have been <br />received. <br />A public outreach meeting was held on January 27, 2011 in the Lower Level Conference Room <br />of the Orange County West Campus Office Building. Notifications of the meeting was e- mailed <br />to interested parties, including the people who e- mailed comments in November requesting <br />more time to review the UDO. Approximately 30 people attended the meeting, including two <br />County Commissioners. The outreach meeting sign -in sheet indicated that none of the people <br />who e- mailed on November 22, 2010 requesting additional time to review the UDO attended the <br />outreach meeting. Staff explained various aspects of the LIDO, the process that has been <br />followed, current zoning and development processes, and the conditional districts which are <br />included in the draft UDO as a replacement to the existing Planned Development provisions in <br />the current Zoning Ordinance. <br />In addition, Planning staff has met with individuals and has attended group meetings as <br />requested. <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 included in Attachment 8. <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 LIDO 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 (included in Attachment 8) has been prepared as a tool for <br />anyone interested in knowing where existing regulations are located within the new UDO format. <br />Upon adoption, all text currently shown as proposed for deletion will be removed, thereby <br />shortening the length of the document. More importantly, staff will develop user friendly <br />brochures of different development processes so our customer interaction can be focused on <br />their specific interest. Therefore, the typical customer will likely be relating to small sections of <br />the overall document. <br />The UDO is available to the public on the Planning Department's UDO website and upon <br />request, can be provided on CD. A paper copy is also available for review in each of the <br />following locations during the regular business hours of each facility: the Orange County <br />Planning Department offices, the Chapel Hill Library, the Carrboro Cybrary, and the Orange <br />County Main Library in Hillsborough. <br />