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7 <br /> PROPOSED ORDINANCE AMENDMENT <br /> ORDINANCE: ZONING ORDINANCE <br /> ZONING ATLAS <br /> REFERENCE: Article 4.2.26 Efland Setback(ES) Overlay District (NEW) <br /> Article 6.24 Extra Requirements for the Efland Setback(ES) <br /> Overlay District(NEW) <br /> ORIGIN OF AMENDMENT: x Staff Planning Board <br /> BOCC Public <br /> Other: <br /> STAFF PRIORITY RECOMMENDATION: _X_High Middle Low <br /> PUBLIC HEARING DATE: August 26, 1996 <br /> PURPOSE OF AMENDMENT: To consider the creation of a new Overlay Zoning <br /> District which would allow lesser setbacks than generally <br /> required in the underlying zoning district, and to apply <br /> the new Overlay district to Ten and Twenty-Year <br /> Transition Areas in the Efland Area. <br /> IMPACTSASSUES: The Orange County Planning Staff proposes that a new zoning <br /> overlay district be applied to the 10-Year and 20-Year Transition <br /> Areas in the Efland area. The proposed overlay would allow <br /> setbacks of 20 feet from road right-of-way and 8 feet from side <br /> and rear property lines, with provision for zero-lotline <br /> development in the interior of a subdivision. The proposed <br /> setbacks are comparable to the setbacks currently allowed in the <br /> R-5 zoning district. <br /> The proposed amendment was initiated by the Planning Staff after <br /> receiving a rezoning request submitted by a property owner to <br /> address a setback problem. Because the problem was common to <br /> many lots in the Efland area, an amendment was proposed by he <br /> Planning Staff to address the issue on a community-wide rather <br /> than lot-by-lot basis. <br /> Efland was an existing developed community when Cheeks <br /> township was zoned in 1984, and is partially served by public <br />