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� 005 <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 District <br /> which would allow lesser setbacks than generally required in <br /> the underlying zoning district, and to apply the new Overlay <br /> district to Ten and Twenty-Year Transition Areas in the <br /> 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 and <br /> rear property lines, with provision for zero-lotline development in <br /> the interior of a subdivision. The proposed setbacks are comparable <br /> to the setbacks currently allowed in 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 <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 than <br /> lot-by-lot basis. <br /> Efland was an existing developed community when Cheeks township <br /> was zoned in 1984,and is partially served by public water and sewer. <br /> Of the 1,289 existing lots in the Transition Areas, which includes the <br /> Efland community as well as area west to the vicinity of Buckhorn <br />