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26 <br />Attachment 7 <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 and pressure to sell farmland for residential development <br />may be lessened. <br />Because applying the ASE concept in the Rural Buffer requires 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 (these proposed amendments are <br />scheduled for adoption consideration by the Board of County Commissioners on May 20, <br />2014), 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 (these proposed <br />amendments were heard at the County's February 24, 2014 quarterly public hearing but <br />since amendments to the Joint Planning Land Use Plan and Agreement are necessary <br />before the UDO and Comprehensive Plan amendments can be adopted, they are not <br />scheduled for adoption consideration until September 8, 2014). <br />Proposed additions /changes to existing text are depicted in red; text in red is unchanged from <br />text presented at the February 24, 2014 quarterly public hearing. Text in blue was presented at <br />the quarterly public hearing as proposed changes to the originally proposed language. Text in <br />green are changes proposed after the quarterly public hearing to correct errors, clarify intent (in <br />response to questions asked at the public hearing), or to address issues of legal sufficiency <br />raised by the County Attorney's office at the public hearing. The text in red, blue, and preen is <br />applicable to the County's ASE program outside of the Rural Buffer. Text shown in orange are <br />the amendments necessary to apply the ASE program within the Rural Buffer. <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 LIDO is available online <br />at: http: / /orangecountyric.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 />04/22/14 <br />