Report - Report and Action on Growth Controls in Large Residential Projects

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7 BOCC Work Session 8/29/02 Growth Control Recommendations I. Develop an outline for a special use permit (SUP) process for the subdivision of land creating 20 or more lots to be presented at 9/17/2002 BOCC meeting II. Notify every applicant for residential subdivision approval: (1) whose application or proposed application is not also for a planned development special use permit; or (2) whose application or planned application involves the subdivision of land into 20 or more lots that the Board of Commissioners will consider amending the Orange County Zoning Ordinance, on or before December 2, 2002, to provide. that any subdivision of land creating 20 or more lots is a special use requiring a special use permit. • The amendments that will be considered may include other procedural and substantive requirements. These requirements may include: (a) greater detail, coverage and confirmation of the "yield plan" required in the evaluation of whether the project may be approved as a conventional plan or a flexible plan; (b) professionally prepared groundwater analysis if the residential lots are proposed to be served by wells; (c) public water supply availability if the residential lots are proposed to be served by a public water system. • The notification shall advise the applicant that the applicant will not be considered to have acted in good faith if the applicant proceeds, after the notification, with an application while the amendments are under consideration. • An application that has received special use permit approval, preliminary plan approval or that has been scheduled for Board of Commissioner preliminary plan action', will not be so notified and may proceed according to its special use permit or preliminary plan approval and the Orange County Zoning Ordinance and Subdivision Regulations in effect on the date of approval. • Begin the notification process as soon as possible. ' Only one residential subdivision that has not received either a special use permit or preliminary plan approval would likely qualify for consideration by the Board of Commissioners under the zoning and subdivision rules in place now. That subdivision is Eno Ridge which is scheduled for Board consideration on September 17, 2002.