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Please enter my email of 2/28/11 into the public record Please consider requiring a super majority vote on all rezoning requests in the proposed "Conditional Districts" Spot zoning usually involves a very limited number of property owners who are trying to secure special benefits for themselves, without regard for the rights of adjacent landowners. Please consider requiring the petitioner to build out any properties submitted and approved for rezoning under Conditional Use and Conditional Zoning Districts; if the property is not developed the rezoning should expire and the property revert back to the original zoning and uses. This would ensure that the County would gain the additional tax base anticipated in the approval rather than line the pockets of land speculators. Consider restraining the Conditional Use Districts to the existing Commercial, Industrial, and Economic Development Nodes of the county and exclude their use in Agricultural- Residential, Rural Buffer, Rural Residential, Resource Protection areas and Municipal Town limits and their Extra-Territorial Jurisdictions. These Conditional Districts may lead to inharmonious land use patterns. There should be a requirement that the rezoning is compatible with the County's Comprehensive Paln including existing zoning maps. Review the 11/8/10 Planning Staff Memo to BOCC on changes to the Planning Board duties: The current Ordinance allows them to propose and recommend plans The substituted language in the UDO allows them to prepare and adopt plans The adoption of plans is a BOCC duty She pointed out that the Haw River is an area that also needs to be protected and should be included in this. Planning Board member comments— none. Board of County Commissioners' comments: Commissioner Gordon said that Councilmember Penny Rich from Chapel Hill asked her to enter the following draft resolution into the record: A RESOLUTION REGARDING THE PROPOSED UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE FOR ORANGE COUNTY (2011-02-28/R-0.1) WHEREAS, the Chapel Hill Town Council is committed to upholding the stipulations of the Orange County-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Joint Planning Agreement (JPA) and to maintaining the integrity of the Rural Buffer (RB); and WHEREAS, Orange County has proposed a Unified Development Ordinance (UDO), and as one of the partners to the Joint Planning Agreement, the Council may provide comments on the UDO to the Orange County Board of Commissioners; and WHEREAS, the Unified Development Ordinance has been described as a consolidation of several Orange County ordinances, with no significant changes in wording; and