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Article 5: Uses <br />Section 5.1: Establishment of Use Reaulations <br />(C) In addition to the listing of such uses, the Board of County Commissioners intends tha <br />the general standards and the more specific requirements established herein, shall pre <br />used by the Board of Adjustment, the Planning Board and the Board of County <br />Commissioners, as appropriate, to direct deliberations upon application or the proval of <br />ecial Uses. <br />(D) It is a express intent of the Board of County Commissioners to define a the areas of <br />concer onnected with each Special Use and to provide standards which applications <br />for such S cial Use shall be evaluated. <br />(E) Establishmen f Classes of Special Uses; Authority To prove or Disapprove <br />There are hereby e ablished the following classes of Sp ial Uses which shall be <br />approved or disappro as shown: <br />(1) Class A - Approve r disapproved by Boa of County Commissioners <br />(2) Class B - Approved or approved by card of To <br />5.1.4 Conditional Uses <br />(A) The Board of County Commissioner is mi ful of its responsibility to protect the public <br />health, safety and general welfare f the resi nts of Orange County and intends to <br />encourage development within a County consi ent with that purpose. <br />(B) The Board of County Com 'ssioners also recognize hat certain uses are appropriate <br />for development in Oran County but their location an ite development specifics <br />cannot be predetermi d or regulated through the use of a eneral zoning district <br />designation and co entional standards. <br />(C) Conditional Us and Conditional Use Districts are hereby establis ed and shall be <br />reviewed in cordance with the provisions of this Ordinance. <br />(D) Permitt Uses <br />(1) Any use listed as Permitted by Right or by Special Use Permit on the ble of <br />Permitted Uses may be approved as a Conditional Use within a Conditio I Use <br />District, unless expressly excluded in Section 5.1.4(E) of this Ordinance. <br />(2) Permitted uses are subject to all general and specific standards of approval for <br />that use, as established within this Section. <br />(E) Exclusions <br />(1) Unless otherwise noted in Section 5.2, the following uses shall not be considered <br />or approved as a Conditional Use District within the Commercial - Industrial <br />Transition Activity Node or Economic Development Transition Activity Node land <br />use classifications, as designated by the adopted Comprehensive Plan: <br />(a) Airports, General Aviation, Heliports, S.T.O.L, <br />(b) Class II Kennels, <br />(c) Commercial Feeder Operation, <br />(d) Composting Operation with grinding, <br />(e) Crematoria, <br />(f) Extraction of Earth Products, <br />(g) Junkyards, <br />(h) Landfills (less than 2 acres), <br />(i) Landfills (2 acres or more), <br />(j) Meat Processing Facility, Regional, <br />Orange County, North Carolina — Unified Development Ordinance Page 5 -2 <br />