ORD-1999-003 Proposed Amendments to the Carrboro Land Use Ordinance 05041999

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. r 30 TOWN OF CARRBORO NORTH CAROLINA S T AA E R E P - O -R T _ TO: BOARS OF ALDERr m FROM: PAMCIA J. MCGuntE,L=d Use Pkwxi r DATE: MARCH 161, 1999 SUBJECT: NSA FAC LUAM PL M b[P1wmEUmmioM.- RmsEO DRAFT ORetNM*CE COPY: ROT W. ' AUJFOIWF Planning Director BAOMMU-M ` The policy document upon which this ordinance is based was developed over the course of nearly seven years,and involved the participation of approai tatrly 200 individuals in several, hundred hours of meetings, opert house sessions and wads hops. The process culminated in the acceptance of the facilitated plan, developed by consensus of workshop participants, by the Board of Aldermen in the late summa of 1997 and the incorporation of the plea into the Joint Planing Area Land Use Plan by Orange County and Chapel Hill in early 1999. The adopted amendments to the JPA documents retain the Transition Areas and require Orange'County and Canboro to hold joint hearings to establish Village blixed Use and Office Assembly Conditional Use Zones m the Transition.Areas. Planning staff of Orange County and Canboro is discussing a review procedure associated with these joint rezonings that will mini�msae duplication of staff effort and confusion on the part of applicants. On Decernba 16, 1998, tine Board of-Aldermen bald a public hearing to receive broad public comment on the substance of a proposed legislative wing change—the adoption of"An Ordinance Amending the Canboro Land use Ordinance to Wement the l2ecoxnmcodations of the Facilitated Small Area Plan for Caaboro's Northam Study Area." The ord4mac e to implement the land use provisions of the plan was prepared by a. committee of ditb=3 wod&9 with town staff;, Eighteen people offered their comments on the provisions of*;'&aft ordinance. Comte during the hearing can.be categorized into three major areas: the effect of the ordinance on housing affordability and design creativity, the need to balance envirozuaeat+d protection yvith adjusted or reduced density,and the reed fiat flQa"bility in the designation of hardwood areas as primary conservation areas. Following revisions to the ordinance in January and Febrwxy, a revised NSA ordinance was referred to Caaboro advisory boards and Orange County. .