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He said staff is now asking the Board to add the Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) to that codification, as appendix 1. He said this will allow it to be plead and proven in courts, as the code of ordinances. John Roberts said the second to last paragraph reads "be it further resolved a recently adopted amendment to the UDO, ordinance 2014-17, related to kennels, which was adopted in April of this year, is not included." He said a motion would be needed to include in this statement the home occupations and agricultural support enterprises text amendments that were adopted tonight. Chair Jacobs clarified that the statement should read "be it further resolved a recently adopted amendment to the UDO, ordinance 2014-17, related to kennels, home occupations and agricultural support enterprises, adopted in April and May of 2014 are not included in the unified development ordinance proofs." Commissioner Rich asked if this will be updated annually. John Roberts said it is updated as often as staff sends in notifications to Municode, and this is usually done quarterly. He said Municode updates the website and sends a republication amendment to the County. He said any text amendment that is adopted will be effective. He said it will show up on Municode's website as not officially published, but there will be a link to a PDF version of the document. Commissioner Rich asked if John Roberts anticipated any confusion from the time that things are adopted to the quarterly report. John Roberts does not anticipate any problems from that. Commissioner Gordon said she wanted to clarify that the kennels, home occupations, and agricultural support enterprises amendments will not be included. She asked if this has to be said every time an ordinance is adopted. John Roberts said the UDO is not part of the code now. He said, since the County is adding it, it is being added based on the re-publication that was submitted to the County a month ago, and that did not include these three text amendments. He said, in the future, whenever a text amendment is passed by the Board, it will automatically be effective, and it will be put into the code as soon as it is sent to Municode. He said there will be no need for any extra action in the future. Chair Jacobs asked if these three items will be incorporated the next time there is an update. John Roberts said Municode should be able to add these before the final publication is completed. A motion was made by Commissioner porosin, seconded by Commissioner Price to adopt and authorize the Chair to sign the attached Resolution of Adoption and add the UDO to the Code of Ordinances of Orange County, North Carolina, with the inclusion of the following change to the second to last paragraph: "be it further resolved that recently adopted amendments to the UDO, related to kennels, home occupations and agricultural support enterprises, adopted in April and May of 2014 are not included in the unified development ordinance proofs." . Commissioner Gordon suggested a friendly amendment to say "agricultural support enterprises outside of the rural buffer." Commissioner porosin asked John Roberts if this is needed. John Roberts said it will not hurt anything. He said only one agricultural support enterprises ordinance was adopted tonight. Commissioner porosin and Commissioner Price accepted the friendly amendment. The complete resolution, including revisions reads as follows: