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14 <br />f. Visual impact from along major transportation corridors; <br />g. How the development plans to use design and architectural controls as <br />well as screening and landscaping to ensure that the design flexibility <br />provided in the proposed Planned Development district produces a high <br />quality development. Colors shall be diverse and harmonious and a <br />palette of colors shall be submitted for approval. One color should not <br />dominate any palette and bright colors should be used as accents only; <br />h. How the development proposes to minimize or mitigate any adverse <br />impacts on neighboring properties and the environment, including <br />without limitation impacts from traffic and stormwater runoff; <br />2) The Planning Board (and other advisory boards to which the Board of <br />County Commissioners may refer the application) shall review the <br />proposed Master Development Plan and Special Use Permit, Class A <br />application at the same time it considers the petitioner's rezoning request. <br />In response to suggestions made by the Planning Board (or other advisory <br />boards), the applicant may revise the Master Development . Plan and <br />Special Use Permit, Class A application before it is returned to the Board of <br />County Commissioners provided the changes . are in response to items <br />raised at either the public hearing or subsequent to the Planning Board <br />recommendation. <br />3) The Board of County Commissioners may only approve a rezoning <br />application if it simultaneously approves the Master Development Plan and <br />Special Use Permit, Class A for the development of the property, subject to <br />such reasonable modifications and conditions as the Board may impose in <br />the exercise of its legislative discretion. <br />4) If a Planned Development rezoning application is approved with a Master <br />Development Plan and a Special Use Permit, Class A the approval of the <br />Master Development Plan under this section does not .obviate the need to <br />obtain a Final Development Plan and Special Use Permit, Class A for the <br />individual "pods" or buildings shown on the Master Development Plan in <br />accordance with the special use permit provisions of Section 8 of the <br />Orange County Zoning Ordinance. <br />5) A Master Development Plan approved under this section may only be <br />amended in accordance with the provisions applicable to a rezoning of the <br />property in question. <br />6) Not withstanding the foregoing provisions, if the Board of County <br />Commissioners finds during its review of a request for approval of a <br />Planned Development Master Development Plan that sufficiently detailed <br />information has been submitted, the Board may approve the Master <br />Development Plan as a Special Use Permit, Class A for an individual site or <br />for the entire development. For purposes of this subsection, the phrase <br />"sufficiently detailed information" means that type and degree of information <br />which allows the Board to understand and approve all of the major <br />discretionary design elements of the project, leaving mostly technical or <br />engineering matters to be approved by the staff. If a Master .Development <br />