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7 The general geographic extent of the proposed "Efland Interstate Overlay District" is the railroad tracks that run through Efland to Interstate 40/85 with west-east boundaries of a line between Gaines Chapel Road and Center Street and the U.S. 70 Connector. A map depicting the proposed overlay districts is available on the Planning Department's website at: http://orangecountync.gov/planning/SpecialProjects.asp Single-family residential uses are not subject to the proposed overlay districts. Purpose: To review the item and receive public comment on the proposed text and zoning atlas amendments. 6. 2030 Comprehensive Plan and Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) Text Amendments: In accordance with the provisions of Section 2.3 Comprehensive Plan Amendments and Section 2.8 Zoning Atlas and Unified Development Ordinance Amendments of the Unified Development Ordinance, the Planning Director has initiated an amendment to the text of the 2030 Comprehensive Plan and the Unified Development Ordinance and to the Zoning Atlas. The purpose of these amendments is to establish a zoning program commonly referred to as Agricultural Support Enterprises (ASE). This text amendment would establish the ASE program outside of the Rural Buffer land use classification, as depicted on the Future Land Use Map of the 2030 Comprehensive Plan. This is a program that has been in development since 2001. In the 2030 Comprehensive Plan, the Land Use and Zoning Matrix contained in Appendix F is proposed to be amended by adding an ASE-CZ zoning district that would potentially be allowed in the following Land Use Classifications: Commercial Transition Activity Node, Commercial-Industrial Transition Activity Node, Rural Residential, Agricultural Residential, Rural Community Activity Node, Rural Neighborhood Activity Node, and Rural Industrial Activity Node. The following Sections of the UDO are proposed for amendment: 2.4.3, 2.5.2, 3.8, numerous Sections in Article 5 (including the Table of Permitted Uses), 6.2.5, 6.2.6, 6.4.10, 6.8.6, 6.9.7, and Article 10 (Definitions). The purpose of the Agricultural Support Enterprises program is to accommodate appropriate uses farmers outside of the Rural Buffer land use classification can pursue in order to generate additional farm-related income and to potentially allow farming support/related uses in rural areas while minimizing any adverse impacts on adjoining property by applying special standards for specific uses and the development requirements in the County's UDO for all projects. By better enabling farmers to stay in the business of farming, the rural, farming heritage of Orange County will continue to be preserved.