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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: February 7, 2012 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. -j - e <br />SUBJECT: Amendments to Unified Development Ordinance Text (UDO /Zoning 2011 -06) <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections PUBLIC HEARING: (Y /N) Yes <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />1. Comprehensive Plan /Land Use Element <br />Map and Unified Development Ordinance <br />(UDO) Amendment Outline Form <br />(UDO/Zoning-2011-06) <br />2. Approval Ordinance <br />3. November 21, 2011 Draft Quarterly <br />Public Hearing Minutes <br />4. December 7, 2011 Planning Board <br />Minutes <br />Educational / Requested Materials: <br />5. Comparative Examples of Noise Levels <br />6. Excerpt from Buckhorn Village's Class A <br />Special Use Permit <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Perdita Holtz, 245 -2578 <br />Craig Benedict, 245 -2592 <br />PURPOSE: To receive the Planning Board recommendation, close the public hearing, and <br />make a decision on Planning Director initiated amendments to the Unified Development <br />Ordinance (UDO). <br />BACKGROUND: Staff was tasked with proposing amendments to the UDO that will result in <br />regulations that more strongly encourage quality, non - residential development in the Economic <br />Development Districts (EDDs) and other areas designated for growth, such as Commercial - Industrial <br />Transition Activity Nodes, while balancing any adverse impacts to adjacent properties and the <br />environment. In completing this task, staff must ensure that the amendments work within the overall <br />framework of the UDO and how Orange County regulates development. Staff was directed to not <br />propose changes to the Table of Permitted Uses (Section 5.2) at this time. However, changes to <br />Section 5.2 are expected to come forward in 2012 and will likely entail additional text changes to <br />ensure a cohesive UDO. <br />In completing this work and the work on the Comprehensive Plan text amendments (separate item), <br />staff determined that some amendments would be necessary that are not solely EDD- related. <br />Therefore, amendments to other sections of the UDO are also proposed but all are being proposed <br />in order to provide clarity and conciseness to regulations that relate primarily to non - residential <br />development. <br />