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'01~ <br />s <br />Plan.nixa.g Staff Report for Au~ust 29, 2002 <br />Board of County Commissioners Work Session <br />Growth Control Issues ~ <br />ISSUE 1: Identify the details of a praposed moratoria including; size aad scale of a lazge <br />residential proj ect. ~ <br />RESPONSE: August 7~', 2U02, the Planning Board agreed to define Iarge development ~ <br />as any subdivision with 20 or more lots. <br />ISSiTE 2: Det~rmine what `~ipeliue" proposals would be affected. <br />1~SPONSE: The Planning Boazd discussed three "pipeline" options at which to stop an <br />existing project: <br />1.) A snbdivision that has been submitted ta staff; , <br />2.) The praject's concept plan has been approved by fhe Planning Board; <br />3.) A pmject that has been issued a formal preliminary approval by the BQCC. <br />ISSUE 3: List the steps necessary to prodnce/implement a limited growth moraxorium or • <br />other growth control. ~ <br />RESPONSE: 1. Report to the Orange County Board of County Comtnissianers of 7une <br />18, 2002, in response to the Orange County Planning Board "Growth Contral Letter of <br />May 6, 2002. A mora.torium could be enacted in the following time frame. The length of <br />the moratorium would be coordinated with the completion af a unified development <br />ordinance wluch would create a special use pmcess for major subdivisions. 'The Planning <br />Board has asked for additional time to process subd.ivision applicatians. The <br />coznprehensive plan land use element, adequate public facilities ordimance, and ordinance <br />revisions regarding water resource issues would be concurrent~y researched. and <br />implemented to some degree. <br />The shortest regular timeframe for the enactrnent of a moratorium would be as follows: <br />Request for Legai 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 tirneframe 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 Uni.fied 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, £lood management and economic development. <br />The Unified. Development Ordinauce creates a comprehensive and cross-referenced <br />document, combin.es variaus land use controls in a dif~erent procedural cantext. For example, <br />