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218 <br />Attachment 2 <br />Amendment Package for "Agricultural Support Enterprises" Within the Rural Buffer <br />Notes <br />The pages that follow contain the amendments necessary to the Unified Development <br />Ordinance (UDO) text and Comprehensive Plan text to adopt changes related to "Agricultural <br />Support Enterprises" (ASE). The changes are consistent with the general program that has <br />been in development since 2001. The purpose of the ASE project is to augment allowable uses <br />farmers throughout Orange County's planning jurisdiction can pursue in order to generate <br />additional farm - related income and to potentially allow farming support/related uses in rural <br />areas while minimizing any adverse impacts on adjoining property by applying special standards <br />for specific uses and the development requirements in the County's UDO for all projects. By <br />better enabling farmers to stay in the business of farming, the rural, farming heritage of Orange <br />County will continue to be preserved. <br />Because applying the ASE concept in the Rural Buffer will require text amendments to the Joint <br />Planning Area Land Use Plan and Agreement, the program has been divided into 2 separate <br />text amendments: <br />1) to consider /adopt the Comprehensive Plan and UDO amendments necessary to apply <br />the ASE program outside of the Rural Buffer, and <br />2) to consider /adopt the Comprehensive Plan and UDO amendments necessary to apply <br />the ASE program within the Rural Buffer land use classification. <br />The required amendment to the Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan and Agreement is <br />anticipated to occur during 2014 but County staff thought it would be prudent to separate the <br />Rural Buffer information from the remainder of the county since the Rural Buffer portion is <br />expected to be on a longer timeframe of review. <br />Text shown in green is currently unadopted text that is anticipated to be adopted as part of the <br />"ASE Outside of the Rural Buffer" amendments. The proposed additions /changes depicted in <br />red are the amendments necessary to apply ASE to the Rural Buffer land use classification. <br />Some of the proposed changes utilize footnotes to provide a brief explanation as to rationale. <br />Users are reminded that these excerpts are part of a much larger document (the UDO) that <br />regulates land use and development in Orange County. The full UDO is available online <br />at: http: / /orangecountync.gov /planning /Ordinances.asp <br />Please note that the page numbers in this amendment packet may or may not necessarily <br />correspond to the page numbers in the adopted UDO because adding text may shift all of the <br />text/sections downward. <br />Some text on the following pages has a large "X" through it to denote that these sections are not <br />part of the amendments under consideration. The text is shown only because in the full UDO it <br />is on the same page as text proposed for amendment. Text with a large "X" is not proposed for <br />deletion; proposed deletions are shown in GtFikethr96 ,nh text. <br />