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2 f. Growth Management System Designation -- Urban. g. Existing Conditions -- The property is developed and utilized to support a metal fabrication business. h. Access -- The property has direct access onto Southern Drive. Surrounding Land Uses: a. North — Southern Drive, Railroad tracks, R -1 zoned property north of the tracks. b. East — Undeveloped R -1 zoned property. c. South — Undeveloped R -1 zoned property. d. West — R -1 zoned property, one with a single - family residence. Please refer to Attachment 2 for a vicinity map denoting the subject parcel and surrounding properties. Proposal: The property is currently split zoned. As detailed within Attachment 1, the purpose of the amendment is to extend the 1 -1 zoning designation over the entire property. Required parking area and septic system serving the existing industrial operation is located on the R -1 zoned portion of property. The applicants are concerned over their continued ability to have septic and parking supporting the existing industrial operation on the residentially zoned portion property. They are seeking to rectify the problem by extending the existing industrial zoning to ensure their perpetual ability to maintain the existing infrastructure necessary for the business. As some people may recall, when zoning was originally established former staff recommended extending non - residential zoning designations only on those portions of property actively utilized to support non - residential activity, typically only around building area(s). As a result, required parking, septic areas, land use buffers, etc. were more than often not included as part of the non - residentially zoned parcel. This creates problems for owners of these non - residentially zoned properties as current staff interpretation is `residentially' zoned property cannot be used to support non - residential land uses. In many instances property owners find it difficult to maintain the infrastructure necessary to keep their non - residential operations functioning. This is a situation that occurs throughout the County. Staff will be presenting a solution to address these problems at a future meeting. Staff did not, however, want to delay the applicants any further and agreed to work with them to bring this request to the BOCC for action. Staff Analysis: In accordance with Section 2.8 of the LIDO, the Planning Director is required to `cause an analysis to be made of the application' and forward that analysis on to the reviewing body. In completing the required analysis, the Planning Director has found: 1. The application has been deemed complete in accordance with the requirements of Section 2.8 of the LIDO. 2. The property is of sufficient size to be rezoned to the 1 -1 zoning designation. 3. The rezoning is consistent with the Orange County 2030 Comprehensive Plan Future Land Use Map and the adopted the Growth Management System map.