Orange County NC Website
Browse       Search
3 <br />_ _ __ _ _ _ _ <br />of the adjustment to the Orange/Alamance County Line by both county boards and <br />the consent of the State. The affected properties are now zoned AR (Agricultural <br />Residential). The new SFHA also inciuded 12.7 acres within the Haw River <br />floodway. <br />The Zoning Atlas will be amended to include the 20.9 acres of SFHA transferred into <br />Orange County and will be effective on July 1, 2012. These acreage figures account <br />for other acres transferred into Orange County, but are within the City of Mebane or <br />its extra-territorial jurisdiction. <br />__ _ _ __ _ <br />_ __ <br />_ _ _ _ _. <br />2. Analvsis <br />_____. <br />__ - __ _ <br />GIS evaluation confirmed the presence of the SFHA acreage. The 20.9 acres of <br />SFHA transferred into Orange County are found on three different sites containing a <br />total of ten (10) parcels. (Please refer to the maps in Section "E".) These transferred <br />floodplain acres represent twelve (12) percent of the 174.25 acres of land area in the <br />affected properties. No structures are involved in either transfer in or out of Orange <br />County's jurisdiction. <br />Another 0.75 acres of the 500-year floodplain were also transferred into Orange <br />County, but these areas are not within the SFHA, and will not be affected by this <br />zoning atlas amendment. <br />_ _ _ _ _ _ _ __. ___ <br />3. Comprehensive Plan Linkaqe (i e Principles Goals and Obiectives) <br />Land Use Goal 5: Life, health, and property safe from hazard. <br />Prohibit new development in special flood hazard areas as defined by the FEMA <br />Flood Insurance Rate Map, effective February 2, 2007. <br />Natural Resources Goal 7: A balanced and healthy diversity of native plant and <br />animal populations. <br />Objective NA-1: Conserve high-priority natural areas and wildlife habitats, <br />_ including wetlands, rivers and streams, floodplains, ... <br />_ _ _ _ <br />_._ _ _ _ _ _ __ <br />_ _ _ . __ <br />_ . __ ____ . <br />__ _ <br />_ __ <br />4. New Statutes and Rules <br />_ __ _.__ <br />Not applicable. _ _ . _ <br />. _ _ __ <br />C. PROCESS <br />1. TIMEFRAME/MILESTONES/DEADLINES <br />a. BOCC Authorization to Proceed <br />-. __ _ __ <br />_ .___ _ _ <br />- _ __ - ___ <br />March 16, 2012 <br />_ _ __ _ <br />_. _ <br />-._. <br />b. Quarterly Public Hearing <br />_ __ _ _ _ <br />May 29, 2012 _ _ _ <br />c. BOCC Updates/Checkpoints <br />May Quarterly Public Hearing legal advertisement approved on May 1, 2012. <br />2 <br />