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6 requested clarification. Commissioner Jacobs would like to see the amendments again before approving them. Commissioner Brown would like to vote on it and then bring it back for editing. Craig Benedict said that the chart could be added to the motion. If there are any minor editorial changes, they can be wrapped into the final ordinance and reviewed by the County Attorney. Commissioner Jacobs asked about criterion 1 a and why we would not want to include in the one-acre zoning where there is 50% open space as opposed to 33% as one of the threshold criteria to be allowed to have a private road. Craig Benedict said that a 40,000 square foot lot with a house and all of the accessory structures is not going to be enough in a rural setting to achieve everything that a rural setting would be. Commissioner Jacobs feels that having more open space does achieve rural character preservation, even in a one-acre zoning district. He is suggesting that if someone provides a minimum lot size required by the zoning district, they should be able to have a private road as long as at least 50% open space is provided. Discussion ensued on this idea of smaller lot size and 50% open space. Commissioner Brown would rather finish amending these standards and then approach 'cluster' from something other than a private road perspective. Craig Benedict said that this issue of open space would be brought back before thetwo-year time period for review of the private road standards. Chair Carey suggested tabling this item until the staff can come back with a recommendation for the size of the lots that will provide flexibility. . Commissioner Brown was not in favor of tabling this item. She wants to increase the lot sizes, particularly in the one-acre areas of the County. Craig Benedict said that the staff could address, with the County's open space criteria, what a subdivision with 50 percent open space accomplishes. Commissioner Halkiotis suggested setting up a small group of Commissioner Brown, Commissioner Jacobs, and Craig Benedict to bring the amendments back within 30 days. Chair Carey asked if there was a substitute motion to bring this back within 30 days with some of the issues addressed by the staff. Commissioner Brown indicated she did not want to bring it back. She will adopt whatever the Board wants. Commissioner Halkiotis withdrew his second. Commissioner Jacobs said that he would second the motion with all the things that have been stated including the 50% open space. (This "second" of the motion on the floor is a substitute motion, which did not receive a second.) Commissioner Halkiotis said that he would like to see this brought back with additional information. Craig Benedict said that he would like to see this adopted even with 50 percent open space on a 40,000 square foot lot rather than waiting. If his analysis shows that this will not work, he will bring it back to the Board for further discussion. A motion was made by Commissioner Carey, seconded by Commissioner Jacobs to adopt the proposed amendments to the Orange County Private Road Standards as follows: 1) a declarative statement on page 18 as follows: 1) "There is no right to a private road in any subdivision larger than three lots."; 2) Three-lot subdivisions (those with three or fewer lots) would not require an engineer certification for the road; 3) Three-lot subdivisions (those with three or fewer lots) can ask for aone-year extension by right for minor subdivision approval after the one-year expiration; 4) The amendments will be reviewed in two years or less; 5) No more than 12 lots will be permitted on a private road and 6) A sliding scale of lot sizes will be provided for subdivisions with at least 50% open space. This also applies to the minimum two-acre lot size zoning districts (except for the Rural Buffer, which must be addressed through the joint planning process.) Commissioner Jacobs made a commitment to Commissioner Halkiotis that if the Planning Director brings back a presentation that shows that sliding scale of lot sizes is somehow detrimental to the purposes the County is trying to achieve, he will be the first one to make the motion to change it. 6