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ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: October 19, 1999 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No, 9- <br /> SUBJECT: Text Amendments: Development Standards In Cane Creek Watershed <br /> DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) No <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> 1) Administration Recommendation Karen Lincoln, ext. 2583 <br /> 2) Ordinance Amending O.C. Zoning Ordinance <br /> 3) Ordinance Amending O.C. Subdivision Regulations TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br /> 4) '11-23-98 Public Hearing Minutes Hillsborough 732-8181 <br /> 5) 9-�-99 Planning Board Minutes Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br /> 6) Executive Summary of Staff Report Durham 688-7331 <br /> 7) 11-16-98 Staff Recommendation Mebane (336)227-2031 <br /> 8) 8-26-99 Memorandum to Planning Board <br /> PURPOSE: To consider proposed text amendments to the Orange County Zoning Ordinance and to the <br /> Orange County Subdivision Regulations that will implement new development standards for Cane Creek <br /> watershed. Ordinance amendments are legislative zoning decisions. <br /> BACKGROUND: <br /> Request <br /> Amendments, resulting from a three-year study of Cane Creek Watershed conducted by the Orange Water <br /> and Sewer Authority (OWASA), propose changes to Article 22 (Definitions) and Article VI, Section 6.23 <br /> (Extra Requirements for Watershed Protection Overlay Districts) of the Orange County Zoning <br /> Ordinance and to Section IV-13-10, Flexible Development, of the Orange County Subdivision <br /> Regulations to implement new watershed protection measures for Cane Creek watershed. These <br /> changes incorporate subsequent recommendations made in October, 1997, by the OWASA Board of <br /> Directors. <br /> Location <br /> 'The proposed amendments will affect future development within the Cane Creek watershed. <br /> Existing and Proposed Conditions <br /> Existing: • Maximum density: 1 du/2 acres. <br /> • 33% open space requirement in flexible development subdivisions using the <br /> conservation or cluster option (conservation-cluster). <br /> Proposed: • Maximum density: 1 du/five acres; Lots of record existing on date of adoption may <br /> contain up to, but no.more than, five lots as small as two acres in size. <br /> Flexible development subdivisions allowed with overall density of 1 du/2 acres <br /> provided 50% of total area is reserved as open space. <br /> • 50% open space requirement in flexible development subdivisions within the <br /> Cane Creek watershed. <br /> g:\txtamend\canecrk\boccabs.doc\10-6-99Ud <br />