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~~~ <br />1 <br />2 <br />3 <br />4 <br />5 <br />7 <br />S <br />9 <br />1~ <br />11 <br />12 <br />~3 <br />14 <br />15 <br />16 <br />17 <br />18 <br />19 <br />Zo <br />21 <br />22 <br />23 <br />24 <br />25 <br />Z6 <br />27 <br />2~ <br />29 <br />30 <br />31 <br />32 <br />33 <br />34 <br />35 <br />3~ <br />37 <br />3~ <br />39 <br />40 <br />41 <br />42 <br />43 <br />44 <br />45 <br />46 <br />47 <br />4~ <br />49 <br />50 <br />51 <br />I~RAi~'~' <br />21 <br />~R~~NAN~~ ~~~ ®~A~G~E ~~~~T~ ~~~~ ~p~~p~~l~m~n~ } <br />WHEREAS, the Chapel Hill Town Council is committed to upholding the stipulations of~ <br />the Orange County-Chapel Hill-Carrborv Joint Planning Agreement ~JPA}and to <br />maintaining the integrity of the Rural Buffer FRB}; and <br />WHEREAS, Orange County has proposed a Unified Development Ordinance JUDO}, <br />and as one of the partners tv the Joint Planning Agreement, the Council may provide <br />comments an the UDO to the Orange County Board of Commissioners; and <br />WHEREAS, the Unified Development Ordinance has been described~as a consolidation <br />of several Orange County ordinances, with na significant changes in wording; and <br />~UHEREAS, nonetheless, with the incorporation of existing ordinances into the new <br />UDO, important changes have been introduced in the new UDO, sv that certain aspects <br />remain unclear as the document is 800 pages and is not quickly understood; and <br />WHEREAS, the major concerns about the proposed Unified Development Ordinance <br />JUDO} are focused on revisions that appear to change the regulatory approach and the <br />uses which were established in the original ordinances, in nays that are not in concert <br />with the provisions of the Rura[ Buffer and other sections of the Joint Planning <br />Agreement; and <br />WHEREAS, it is 'important to understand these major changes to the UDO, because <br />they could have an unintended effect on the way development occurs in Orange County; <br />NOW, THEREFORE, BE lT RESOLVED by the Council of the Town of Chapel Hill that <br />the following areas have been identified as of particular concern to the Chapel Hil[ Town <br />Council; <br />~~{ }Concerns related to "'Conditional District" BCD} <br />This "floating zoning district" is a new construct for Orange County and it refers to a <br />district that is not mapped until a rezoning application is approved, This new CD district <br />replaces the Planned Development District in the current zoning ordinance. However, <br />the wording for the new CD district leaves out important text from the original ordinance <br />which specifically ties any CD rezoning to conformance with the underlying <br />Comprehensive Plan, including the land use categories in that plan. what is missing, for <br />example, is language utilized in the original ordinance that explicitly refers to protecting <br />the character of surrounding neighborhoods. <br />In the UDO there are two kinds of Conditional Districts proposed: "Conditional Use <br />Districts" and "Conditional Zoning Districts." <br />The language for the Conditional Use District states that, except for 3~ exclusions, any <br />use permitted in the Table of Permitted Uses can go almost anywhere in Orange <br />County's planning jurisdiction. <br />with respect to Conditional Zoning Districts, these floating zoning districts can be placed <br />in any of the general use zoning districts, according to the regulations associated with <br />each district. Also, in contrast to the original Orange County zoning ordinance, no <br />