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8 <br /> Additional information about this topic is available on the Planning Department's <br /> website at: http://orangecountync.gov/planning/SpecialProjects.asp <br /> Purpose: To review the item and receive public comment on the proposed text <br /> amendments. <br /> PUBLIC INFORMATION MEETING <br /> for this proposal <br /> In an effort to better inform interested persons in an informal setting, a Public <br /> Information Meeting will be held on Thursday, February 13, 2014. Interested <br /> persons will have the opportunity to hear a presentation and ask questions <br /> about the proposed amendments. The Public Information Meeting will be <br /> held in the Food Lab of the Environmental and Agricultural Center located at <br /> 306 Revere Road in Hillsborough and will begin at 6:00 p.m. <br /> 7. 2030 Comprehensive Plan and Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) Text <br /> Amendments: In accordance with the provisions of Section 2.3 Comprehensive <br /> Plan Amendments and Section 2.8 Zoning Atlas and Unified Development <br /> Ordinance Amendments of the Unified Development Ordinance, the Planning <br /> Director has initiated an amendment to the text of the 2030 Comprehensive Plan <br /> and the Unified Development Ordinance and to the Zoning Atlas. <br /> The purpose of these amendments is to establish a zoning program commonly <br /> referred to as Agricultural Support Enterprises (ASE). This text amendment would <br /> establish the ASE program within the Rural Buffer land use classification, as <br /> depicted on the Future Land Use Map of the 2030 Comprehensive Plan. <br /> In the 2030 Comprehensive Plan, the Land Use and Zoning Matrix contained in <br /> Appendix F is proposed to be amended by adding a checkmark to potentially allow <br /> the ASE-CZ zoning district in the Rural Buffer land use classification. <br /> The following Sections of the UDO are proposed for amendment: 3.8 and several <br /> sections in Article 5, including the Table of Permitted Uses and Sections that are not <br /> currently adopted but would be adopted as part of "ASE outside of the Rural Buffer' <br /> (item #6 above). <br /> The purpose of the Agricultural Support Enterprises program, as it applies to the <br /> Rural Buffer land use classification, is to accommodate appropriate uses farmers <br /> can pursue in order to generate additional farm-related income and to potentially <br /> allow appropriate farming support/related uses in the Rural Buffer while minimizing <br /> any adverse impacts on adjoining property by applying special standards for specific <br /> uses and the development requirements in the County's UDO for all projects. <br /> Projects in the Rural Buffer must also conform to the Joint Planning Area Land Use <br />