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concerned about floating districts. She wants it to be clear about how this is different from spot zoning. Michael Harvey said that staff knows that the Board of County Commissioners needs time to review this. It is the goal to get it to the Board of County Commissioners as soon as possible. He said that he could accommodate the concern about the process. The process will be fairly consistent with the existing Class A Special Use Permit review process. Chair Carey asked when language would be available to the County Commissioners and Michael Harvey said by the first of December. Planning Director Craig Benedict said that the reason they are proceeding with conditional uses is that when the rezoning occurs it is talking about an exact proposal for a piece of property, versus a general use that could have 50 different uses. Conditional Use Districts are very specific to the parcel and what will be put there. 3. Economic Development Districts Orange County Zoning Ordinance Section 6.29 Craig Benedict made a PowerPoint presentation. He said that over the last two or three years, the County has had to help Hillsborough out in the joint areas to move forward with Hillsborough's Strategic Growth Plan. The Waterstone project was the product of two years of work with two County Commissioners and two Tawn Commissioners and modifying the existing economic development district booklet to make it mare user-friendly. The County has proceeded on an as-needed basis to modify the EDD. Presently, the County is working in Durham with the Eno EDD. It is time to look at all three EDDs together and try to make them somewhat consistent. He then made the pawerpoint presentation given below. Economic Development Districts (EDDY Possible Amendments to Zoning Code Section 6.29 EDD Design Manual ^ EDD Intent - (By Area Zone) ^ Development Approval System ^ Permitted Use Table (Future Work) and Associated Approval Processes ^ Design and _~pplication Standards EDD DISTRICTS {map)