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102 <br />3 <br />4 <br />5 <br />7 <br />9 <br />~p <br />~1 <br />~~ <br />~3 <br />14 <br />15 <br />~~ <br />~7 <br />~~ <br />~9 <br />~0 <br />21 <br />2~ <br />23 <br />24 <br />25 <br />26 <br />27 <br />2~ <br />29 <br />3U <br />3~ <br />32 <br />33 <br />34 <br />35 <br />3~ <br />37 <br />3S <br />39 <br />4g <br />4t <br />42 <br />43 <br />44 <br />45 <br />46 <br />47 <br />4~ <br />49 <br />5g <br /> <br />WHEREAS, Orange County Planning Staff ~~nade a presentation to the Carrboro Board <br />of Aldermen on Jan~!ary 1g, ?off ~, at v~hich time staff described prr~posPd r:hancges as <br />essentially a consolidation of several Orange County Ordinances, with no significant <br />charges in warding; and <br />WHEREAS, nonetheless, with the incorporation of existing ordinances into the new <br />UDO, important changes have been introduced in the nevi UDO, and although public <br />presentations have explained certain aspects of the UDO, certain aspects remain <br />unclear as the document is 800 pages and is not quickly. understood;~and <br />'~IHEREAS, these particular areas have been identified as of concern to the Carrboro <br />Beard of Aldermen: <br />The Conditional District ~CD~. This "floating zoning district" is a new construct for <br />Orange County and it refers to a district that is not mapped until a rezoning <br />application is approved. The new wording for the CD district leaves out important <br />text, which specifically ties any rezoning to compliance with the underlying <br />Comprehensive Plan. What is missing, for example, is~ language utilized for the <br />original Planned Development ~PD~ district that explicitly refers to protecting the <br />character of the surrounding neighborhoods and seeking opportunities for <br />neighborhood scale mixed use; and <br />Certain provisions for the University Lake Watershed Overlay District: the <br />Conditional Districts should be prohibited in the University Lake Watershed <br />Overlay District, and <br />Far the Cane Creek and Upper Eno Protected and Critical Watershed Districts <br />though outside of the Joint Planning Area, the conditional use district should be <br />prohibited; and <br />Certain provisions for the Rural Buffer: the original language in the existing <br />zoning ordinance specifies that development is far low densities and relies on <br />ground absorption systems for sewage disposal. The new UDO text changes the <br />disposal method to wastewater treatment facilities, which seems to imply the use <br />of package systems. ~ . <br />WHEREAS, it is important to understand these mayor changes to the UDO, because <br />these could have an unintended effect on the way development occurs in Orange <br />County; <br />NOVV THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Carrboro Board of Aldermen asks the <br />Orange County Board of County Commissioners to look further into these areas of <br />concern explained above, in order to head off possible consequences unintended by the <br />Board. <br />The foregoing resolution having been submitted to a vote received the following vote and <br />was duly adopted this 2nd day of February zoo ~ . <br />Email below from Lee Rafalow <br />