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3 <br />Finally, similar to Orange County, home occupation standards contained in the Chatham County <br />Zoning Ordinance and Durham Unified Development Ordinance allow individual artist studios <br />that are incidental to a principal residential use and located within a residential zoning district to <br />operate as home based businesses with an approved permit. <br />Conclusion <br />Standards currently contained within the Orange County UDO allow for individual and <br />cooperative artist studios to operate in numerous zoning districts by right, as a home <br />occupation, with a conditional use permit, or through the conditional zoning district review <br />process. These permitting options provide the opportunity for individual and cooperative artist <br />studios to locate and operate in many residential, commercial, industrial, and rural areas of the <br />county. Standards currently in place regulating and permitting individual and cooperative artist <br />studios are very similar to adopted standards of other local planning jurisdictions including <br />Chatham and Durham Counties. Standards in all three counties only permit individual and <br />cooperative artist studios by right in nonresidential districts. As a result, all three counties <br />provide alternative options to locate and permit artist studios in rural and /or residential districts. <br />Existing standards currently contained in the UDO provide the opportunity for artists to grow, <br />welcome, educate, and showcase their work and talent within Orange County through a variety <br />of permitting processes. If a revision of existing standards pertaining to individual and <br />cooperative artist studios is desired by the BOCC, planning staff is available to review existing <br />standards and consider revisions with the Orange County Planning Board. <br />