S ORD-1997-025 Zoning Ordinance Text Amendment EDDDesign Manual Article 3.2-Landscape Design

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C� 9 1 ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: August 4. 1997 Action Agenda Item# C- SUBJECT: ZONING ORDINANCE TEXT AMENDMENT Economic Development Districts Design Manual (Perimeter Buffer) Article 3.2 -Landscape Design DEPARTMENT: PLANNING PUBLIC HEARING X Yes No BUDGET AMENDMENT REQUIRED Yes–X—No ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: Proposed Amendment Mary Willis 5/27/97 Public Hearing Minutes Extension 2583 I-40/Old NC 86 Maps Citizen Correspondence TELEPHONE NUMBERS: 10/2/95 Commissioners Minutes Hillsborough 732-8181 9/18/95 Planning Board Minutes Durham 688-7331 7/2/97 Planning Board Minutes Mebane 227-2031 Chapel Hill 967-9251 PURPOSE: To consider an amendment to eliminate the 100-foot buffer requirement along the perimeter of an Economic Development District (EDD) which abuts an EDD adopted by another planning jurisdiction. BACKGROUND: Article 3.2 Landscape Design(page 3.2.6)of the EDD Design Manual requires a 100-foot buffer around the perimeter of an EDD in order to separate incompatible uses. The northernmost portion of the Orange County I-40/Old NC 86 EDD on the west side of Old NC 86 between Cates Creek and Oakdale Drive consists of a narrow strip ranging from 300 feet to 500 feet in depth. 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 between Cates Creek and Oakdale Drive, 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 provide is not needed.