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50 <br /> 6. Reduce the number of estate tots allowed on a private road; and <br /> 7. Provide for Planning Board approval of the estate approach. <br /> The proposed changes will necessitate amendments to Section 11, Definitions and Section III-D- <br /> 3, Preliminary Plat Approval. <br /> Development Process. Schedule, and Action <br /> 0 Public Hearing May 24, 1999: Major comments were that flexible development would not be <br /> used if those options did not offer some incentive to the developer Draft minutes are <br /> attached. <br /> +r First Action: Planning Board to consider amendments: <br /> Option 1. Action to recommend approval of the proposed amendments. <br /> Option: 2. Action to recommend denial of the proposed amendments. <br /> Option: 3. Action to recommend changes to the proposed amendments that is not <br /> significant in nature. <br /> Recommendations to be returned to the Board of Commissioners no sooner than <br /> August 17, 1999. <br /> FINANCIAL IMPACT: Not applicable <br /> RECOMMENDATION: <br /> Staff Recommendation: Planning Board to recommend approval of the proposed <br /> amendments to Section 11, Definitions, Section III-D-3, Preliminary Plat Approval, and to Section IV- <br /> 13-10, Flexible Development, of the Orange County Subdivision Regulations. <br /> b. Zoning Ordinance Text Amendments <br /> (1) Definitions Regarding Flexible Development <br /> PURPOSE: To consider proposed text amendments to Article 22, Definitions, of the Orange <br /> County Zoning Ordinance. These changes to the zoning ordinance are proposed as companion <br /> amendments with proposed amendments to subdivision regulations. <br /> BACKGROUND: <br /> Request Amendments propose changes to the zoning ordinance to define "flexible <br /> development" and "open space" in a manner that is consistent with existing and proposed <br /> provisions of the subdivision regulations. Proposed amendments to the subdivision regulations <br /> (initiated by the Planning Board Ordinance Review Committee in December, 1998, to address <br /> issues regarding flexible development) necessitate the amendments to the zoning ordinance. <br /> Location: The amendments, if adopted, will apply to the entirety of Orange County lying <br /> outside of the Rural Buffer and outside the municipalities and their extra-territorial jurisdictions, if <br /> any. <br /> Existing and Proposed Conditions <br /> Existing: • "Flexible development" is defined according to the definition of flexible <br /> development in the subdivision regulations. The definition includes four <br /> approaches to preserving open space in flexible development subdivisions: <br />