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• We <br />IVJ <br />Attachment 4 <br />Present Zoning Ordinance to UDO - Comparison Tables <br />Prologue <br />Attached are two charts comparing existing provisions of the Orange County Zoning <br />Ordinance to zoning constructs proposed in the UDO. <br />The `Comparison of Planned Development and Conditional Use District' shows that <br />there are only limited differences between the proposed Conditional Use District system <br />and the existing Planned Development construct. The changes proposed within the <br />UDO were done largely to conform to North Carolina General Statutes- :and._to.c ear up a - - -.... . <br />number of ambiguities in the current Zoning Ordinance with regard to Planned <br />Development. <br />The second chart compares the proposed Master Plan Development Conditional Zoning <br />District (MPD -CZ) with the existing Planned Development -Mixed Use (PD -MU) district <br />within the current Orange County Zoning Ordinance. MPD -CZ is one d three <br />Conditional Zoning Districts proposed within the UDO. -- Again, the proposed - terminology <br />and construct is consistent with current North Carolina General Statutes-. This - -- <br />conditional zoning district draws from many of the existing components of the Planned - <br />Development construct,' largely the PD -MU program. A big difference between the <br />proposed MPD -CZ and the existing PD -MU construct is that approval of the MPD -CZ is . <br />a legislative approval only. Changes to General Statutes in 2005.permitted the use of <br />Conditional Zoning Districts and the approval of conditions with._specific: - rezoning - <br />requests. <br />Overall, comparisons show the many similarities between the existing- Planned <br />Development provisions of the current Orange County Zoning Ordinance and the <br />conditional use district and conditional zoning district constructs proposed-within the <br />UDO. The key differences between the existing provisions and the proposed- constructs <br />are based largely on changes to General Statutes instituted in 2005: <br />