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48 <br /> attached. The Planning Staff proposes that the amendment be reconsidered through the <br /> public hearing process. <br /> PROPOSED AMENDMENT: <br /> Article 3.2 Landscape Design <br /> Buffering Neighboring Uses (page 3.2.6) <br /> Well-designed landscape treatments lessen adverse visual impacts between different types <br /> of land uses,reduce noise levels, increase privacy levels and mitigate effects from fumes, <br /> glare and vibration. <br /> To create transitions between neighboring areas of differing development intensities, and <br /> separate incompatible land uses, a buffer of 100 feet in width(except where otherwise <br /> specified) is to be provided at the boundary of the Economic Development District, as <br /> well as between primary and secondary Development Areas within the Districts. The <br /> 100-foot wide buffer need not be provided when: <br /> 1 The boundary of the Orange County EDD corresponds with the planning <br /> jurisdiction of another local government: and <br /> 2. The land located in the planning jurisdiction of the other local government has <br /> been zoned Economic Development District and designated the same <br /> Primw3 Development, Second=Developmeno as the land located in the Orange <br /> Comty Economic Development District; an d <br /> 3 The 4joiningplanning jurisdiction's Economic Development District Design <br /> Manual is the same as Orange o mtv's. <br />