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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: November 1, 2011 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 5 - h <br />SUBJECT: Comprehensive Plan and Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) Amendment <br />Outline and Schedule for Upcoming Items <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />Amendment Outlines (9) <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Craig Benedict, Planning Director, <br />245- 2592 <br />Staff Person Listed at End of Each <br />Amendment Form <br />PURPOSE: To consider and approve the process components and schedule for nine <br />government initiated items anticipated for the February 27, 2012 Quarterly Public Hearing. <br />BACKGROUND: Nine items are currently being prepared by Planning staff for the February 27, <br />2012 Quarterly Public Hearing. The items are related to small area plan implementation, <br />economic development focus areas, and amendments necessary due to changes in State <br />Statutes and Rules. <br />Amendment Outlines for these proposed amendments are attached for the Board's <br />consideration and approval: <br />1. Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) Text Amendment - Add a new zoning district <br />(EDB-3) and revise Section 5.1.4 to reduce the Conditional Use exclusions for <br />properties within the Economic Development Transition Activity Node and Commercial- <br />Industrial Transition Activity Node land use classifications. The purpose of the proposed <br />amendments is to create additional development options within the areas of the County <br />slated for water and wastewater services and targeted for development. <br />2. UDO Text Amendment -Revise Section 6.12.5 (n) Political Signs. This amendment <br />will incorporate recent modifications to State law concerning the placement of political <br />signs within the right of way of the State highway system. <br />3. UDO Text Amendment -Revise Section 4.2.5 Impervious surface limits. This <br />amendment will incorporate new State-mandated regulations for properties within the <br />Neuse and Jordan Lake river basins. <br />4. UDO Text Amendment -Revise Section 2.24 Appeal language. This amendment will <br />incorporate recently adopted State law that modified the statute of limitations for the <br />appeal of local government decisions. <br />5. Zoning Atlas Amendment - Pre-zone certain properties in the Buckhorn/Mebane <br />Commercial-Industrial Transition Activity Nodes (CITAN) to prepare the area for eventual <br />