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045 PROPOSED ORDINANCE AMENDMENT ORDINANCE: Zoning Ordinance Economic Development Districts Design Manual REFERENCE: Article 3.2 - Landscape Design ORIGIN OF AMENDMENT: X Staff Planning Board BOCC X Public Other: STAFF PRIORITY RECOMMENDATION: _X_High Middle Low Comment: PUBLIC HEARING DATE: May 27. 1997 PURPOSE: To consider elimination of the 100-foot buffer requirement along the perimeter of an Economic Development District(EDD)which abuts an EDD adopted by another planning jurisdiction. IMPACTS AND ISSUES: Perimeter Buffer Article 3.2 Landscape Design(page 3.2.6)of the EDD Design Manual requires a100-foot buffer around the perimeter of an EDD in order to separate incompatible uses. The I40/Old NC 86(EDD)contains about 750 acres,and extends from south of I-40 to the southern boundary of Hillsborough's jurisdiction. The northernmost portion of the district consists of a narrow strip of properties, ranging from 300 to 500 feet in width,on the west side of Old NC 86 between Cates Creek and Oakdale Drive. It is zoned Primary I Overlay,which places additional limits on permitted uses in order to minimize impacts to adjacent residential areas. The area bounded by the east side of Old NC 86, Cates Creek and I-85 is in the jurisdiction of the Town of Hillsborough and is also zoned Economic Development District. Since Old NC 86 forms a perimeter boundary for both the Orange County and the Hillsborough EDDs, it is applied on both sides of Old NC 86 where the two districts abut. However,the uses which would be allowed adjacent to Old NC 86 in both districts are similar and not incompatible,thus the protection which the perimeter buffer is intended to provided is not needed.