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33i Please. refer to Attachments 2 and 3 for maps denoting the areas of the County where the NC-2 general use zoning district would potentially be allowed per the 2030 Comprehensive Plan. 6. The proposed amendment appears inconsistent with the intent of the NC-2 district as the use has a broader market area than currently envisioned for development within the district. The land use appears to be intended to serve a regional population, not a local neighborhood market, 7. The amendment would allow for a land use that appears inconsistent with the general purpose and intent of the Rural Neighborhood and Rural Community Activity Nodes as defined herein. While staff would agree that the Motor. Vehicles Sales Rental (New & Used) land use category would be appropriate within a Commercial Transition Activity Node and the Commercial Industrial Transition Activity Node. there appears to be a conflict with allowing the use within the other aforementioned Nodes as currently defined. 8. Staff is concerned over the potential .enforcement .problems generated by establishing a limit on the number of cars that could be shown, sold, or rented on the property. If approved, this amendment will require constant inspection by the Department to ensure that the property is still compliance with local regulations, 9. If the petition were approved, the proposed UDO would be modified to reflect the Motor Vehicles Sales Rental (New & Used) land use category as being a permitted use of property within the NC-2 general use zoning as proposed by the applicant. To review the full Ordinance text associated with the various section(s) referenced herein, please utilize the following link to access the regulations on the Orange County Website: www.co.orange.nc.us/piannin /zq oningordinance.asp Staff Recommendation: Staff recommends the Board deny this request based on the proposal's apparent inconsistency with the intent of the NC-2 general use zoning district, as defined within Section 4.2.9 of the Ordinance, and the potential conflicts with such a use being developed within the Rural Neighborhood Activity and Rural Community Activity Nodes as defined within the 2030 Comprehensive Plan. In the case of Mr. Lloyd's specific situation, staff believes there are other options available to allow for the proposed use, without the approval of the proposed text amendment and the establishment of an arbitrary cap on the number of vehicles that can be on the property. Options include rezoning the property to an appropriate zoning designation consistent with the property's location within the Commercial Industrial Transition Activity Node or applying for a Planed Development (Conditional Use District in the UDO) rezoning and Special Use Permit approval. Notification Requirements: Per Article Twenty (20) Section 20.6 of the Ordinance, staff has caused a notice of this hearing to be published: `as least twice in a newspaper of public circulation in the County for two (2) successive weeks: ` no less than ten (10) days-nor more than twenty-five (25) days' before the public hearing. The legal ad was published within the following publications on the following dates: News of Orange Chapel Hill Herald February 16, 2011 February 16, 2011 February 23, 2011 February 23, 2011