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5 <br />Planning Staff Report for August 29, 2002 <br />Board of County Commissioners Work Session <br />Growth Control Issues <br />ISSUE 1: Identify the details of a proposed moratoria including: size and scale of a large <br />residential project. <br />RESPONSE: August 7h, 2002, the Planning Board agreed to define large development <br />as any subdivision with 20 or more lots. <br />ISSUE 2: Determine what "pipeline" proposals would be affected. <br />RESPONSE: The Planning Board discussed three "pipeline" options at which to stop an <br />existing project: <br />1.) A subdivision that has been submitted to staff; <br />2.) The project's concept plan has been approved by the Planning Board; <br />3.) A project that has been issued a formal preliminary approval by the BOCC. <br />ISSUE 3: List the steps necessary to produce /implement a limited growth moratorium or <br />other growth control. <br />RESPONSE: 1. Report to the Orange County Board of County Commissioners of June <br />183 2002, in response to the Orange County Planning Board "Growth Control Letter of <br />May 6, 2002. A moratorium could be enacted in the following time frame. The length of <br />the moratorium would be coordinated with the completion of a unified development <br />ordinance which would create a special use process for major subdivisions. The Planning <br />Board has asked for additional time to process subdivision applications. The <br />comprehensive plan land use element, adequate public facilities ordinance, and ordinance <br />revisions regarding water resource issues would be concurrently researched and <br />implemented to some degree. <br />The shortest regular timeframe for the enactment of a moratorium would be as follows: <br />Request for Legal Ad November 6, 2002 <br />Quarterly Public Hearing November 25, 2002 <br />Planning Board Action December 4, 2002 <br />BOCC Action December 10, 2002 <br />A shorter timeframe if requested could be accomplished by creating a special public <br />hearing at a regular BOCC date. <br />RESPONSE: 2. Unified Development Ordinance Definition <br />A Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) is a combined land development code that <br />integrates the present planning regulatory system of "free standing" codes of subdivision, zoning, <br />environmental impacts, erosion control, flood management and economic development. <br />The Unified Development Ordinance creates a comprehensive and cross - referenced <br />document, combines various land use controls in a different procedural context. For example, <br />