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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />AND <br />PLANNING BOARD <br />PUBLIC HEARING AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: November 24, 2003 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No "N' ,' <br />SUBJECT: Concurrent Text Amendments to the Orange County Zoning Ordinance and <br />Orange County Subdivision Regulations Growth Management System Lot Thresholds <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />Table, Growth Management System <br />Map, Growth Management System <br />Ordinance, Special Use Subdivision <br />1065 <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (Y /N) 0 <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Craig Benedict, Planning Director Ext 2592 <br />Geoff Gledhill, County Attorney <br />John Link, County Manager, Ext 2300 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732 -8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968 -4501 <br />Durham 688 -7331 <br />Mebane 336- 227 -2031 <br />PURPOSE: To hear citizen and public comments regarding the proposed text amendments to <br />the Zoning Ordinance and the Subdivision Regulations. The proposal would require major <br />subdivisions with more than 20 lots, in Rural Designated areas, to follow a planned <br />development/special use`permit/zoning atlas amendment process. <br />BACKGROUND: <br />On November 5, 2003 the Orange County BOCC adopted a Growth Management System. <br />Forty -one (41) lots and above were determined to be the threshold whereby Rural Designated <br />subdivisions would undergo a rezoning. <br />Although the Planning Board, at their September 3, 2003 meeting, recommended a Growth <br />Management System with different lot number thresholds, their recommendation could not be <br />considered by the BOCC on November 5t' because of public notification legal requirements. <br />Specifically, the legal advertisement for the August 25, 2003 Joint Public Hearing did not <br />support, from a legal notification standpoint, the Planning Board's recommendation. <br />Therefore, a new legal ad was requested by the BOCC to be published providing notification <br />that a Public Hearing would be conducted on November 24, 2003 to consider amending the <br />County's newly adopted Growth Management System to incorporate the lot number thresholds <br />that were recommended by the Planning Board on September 3rd which would further reduce <br />the rezoning threshold in Rural Designated areas to 21 lots and above. <br />G: \Comprehensive Planning Div \GENE\2003 Public Hearings\Nov 24\Subdivs of 20+ Lots PDSUP\Abstract 111203.doc <br />