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APPROVED 12/11/2001 <br />MINUTES <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />REGULAR MEETING <br />June 19, 2001 <br />The Orange County Board of Commissioners met in regular session on Tuesday, June 19, 2001 <br />at 6:00 p.m. in the Southern Human Services Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. <br />COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Stephen H. Halkiotis and Commissioners <br />Margaret W. Brown, Moses Carey, Jr., Alice M. Gordon, and Barry Jacobs <br />COUNTY ATTORNEY PRESENT: Geoffrey Gledhill <br />COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager John M. Link, Jr., Assistant County Manager <br />Rod Visser and Clerk to the Board Beverly A. Blythe (All other speakers will be recognized at the <br />appropriate time) <br />NOTE: ALL DOCUMENTS REFERRED TO IN THESE MINUTES ARE IN THE PERMANENT <br />AGENDA FILE IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE. <br />PUBLIC CHARGE <br />The Chair dispensed with the reading of the public charge. <br />Continuation of May 31, 2001 Quarterly Public Hearing <br />6. Orange County Zoning Text Amendments <br />a. Establi sh Rural Guest Establishment <br />b. Amend Detailed Table of Contents <br />1. Amend Article 22 Definitions <br />2. Amend Section 4.3, Permitted Use Table <br />3. Amend Article 8 Special uses <br />4. Amend Article 9 Signage <br />5. Amend Article 10 Parking <br />6. Amend Article 12 Landscaping <br />7. Amend Article 7 Planned Development Requirements <br />Planning Director Craig Benedict said that presently within the County, there is the ability <br />to approve a bed and breakfast establishment if it is a historic house. If it is not a historic house, the <br />applicant must go through a class A special use permit process. This is quite a burden for small <br />establishments. The staff is suggesting to broaden the ability for people to locate bed and breakfast <br />establishments. There are three tiers. Tier one is a bed and breakfast with up to three guestrooms. <br />Tier two is a bed and breakfast inn, which is between four and twelve guestrooms. Tier three is a <br />country inn and is more of a commercial operation, which can have between four and twenty-four <br />guestrooms. A 60-seat restaurant would be allowed at the country inn. With the new regulations, a <br />bed and breakfast would be allowed in the rural buffer area, agricultural residential zoning, and the <br />rural 1 zoning. Tier one bed and breakfasts establishments could be approved with a zoning permit, <br />which would be completed by the staff. Tier two bed and breakfast inns would be a class B special <br />use permit process, which only goes to the Board of Adjustment. This would only be allowed in the <br />agricultural residential and the rural residential zoning. It would not be allowed in the rural buffer. Tier <br />three country inns would be allowed in the agricultural residential and the rural 1 zoning, but it is not <br />allowed in certain critical area watersheds {University Lake Critical Area, University Lake Protected <br />Watershed, Cane Creek Critical Area, and Upper Eno Critical Area). The size requirement of this type <br />of establishment is ten acres minimum, unless provided by water and sewer. The awnerlmanager <br />