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Of' 1067 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING BOARD <br /> PUBLIC HEARING AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: August 27, 2001 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. La-b44 <br /> SUBJECT: Amendments to Flexible Development Street Standards Consistent with <br /> Private Road Standards Adopted 10-10-00. <br /> DEPARTMENT: Planning PUBLIC HEARING: Y/N YES <br /> INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): Craig Benedict, ext. 2592 <br /> 1. Ordinance Amending the Orange County Karen Lincoln, ext. 2594 <br /> Subdivision Regulations <br /> Section IV-B-10 D.4 TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br /> Hillsborough 732-8181 <br /> Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br /> Durham 688-7331 <br /> Durham 688-7331 <br /> PURPOSE: To receive citizen comment on proposed amendments to Orange County Subdivision <br /> Regulations Section IV-13-10 D.4, Flexible. Development Street Standards. <br /> These are not new changes, but a re-editing of a separate section of the subdivision <br /> regulations to conform to what was previously adopted. <br /> BACKGROUND: The Orange County Board of County Commissioners, on October 10, <br /> 2000, adopted amendments to the Orange County Subdivision Regulations, Appendix A <br /> Orange County Private Road Standards, to reduce the number of lots on a private road.from <br /> 25 to 12; eliminate the class C private road provision- and to reduce the number of lots on a <br /> class B private road from 9 to 5. Street standards (Subsection DA) in Section IV-13-10 <br /> Flexible Development that mimic language in the Orange County Private Road Standards are <br /> now not consistent with the newly adopted amendments. Proposed amendments (page 2) <br /> will make Section IV-13-10 DA consistent with Appendix A Orange County Private Road <br /> Standards, <br /> FINANCIAL IMPACT: There is no immediate financial impact associated with this <br /> decision item. <br /> RECOMMENDATION(S): The Administration recommends that the Board refer the proposed <br /> amendments to the Planning Board for a recommendation to be returned to the Board of <br /> Commissioners no sooner than October 16, 2001. <br /> g:\transportation\privateroads\flex_dev_8-27phabs.doc <br />