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001 <br /> ORANGECOUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> PUBLIC HEARING AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: August 26. 1996 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item# C 1a & 2a <br /> SUBJECT: PROPOSED ZONING ORDINANCE TEXT AMENDMENT <br /> PROPOSED ZONING ATLAS TEXT AMENDMENT <br /> Article 4.2.26 Efland Setback(ES)Overlay District (NEW) <br /> Article 6.24 Extra Requirements for the Efland Setback(ES) Overlay District <br /> (NEW) <br /> Z-5-96 Efland Setback Overlay District <br /> DEPARTMENT: PLANNING PUBLIC HEARING_X—Yes_No <br /> BUDGET AMENDMENT NEEDED Yes_X–No <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> Mary Willis <br /> Proposed amendment Extension 2583 <br /> Certificate of Mailing <br /> TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br /> Hillsborough- 732-8181 <br /> Durham -688-7331 <br /> Mebane -227-2031 <br /> Chapel Hill -967-9251 <br /> PURPOSE: To consider the creation of a new Overlay Zoning District which would allow <br /> lesser setbacks than generally required in the underlying zoning district,and to <br /> apply the new Overlay district to Ten and Twenty-Year Transition Areas in the <br /> Efland Area. <br /> BACKGROUND: The Orange County Planning Staff proposes that a new zoning overlay <br /> district be applied to the 10-Year and 20-Year Transition Areas in the <br /> Efland area. The proposed overlay would allow setbacks of 20 feet from <br /> road right-of-way and 8 feet from side and rear property lines, with <br /> provision for zero-lotline development in the interior of a subdivision. <br /> The proposed setbacks are comparable to the setbacks currently allowed in <br /> the 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 address a <br />