ORD-2014-043 Ordinance Approving Proposed Zoning Text Amendments Requiring Neighborhood Information Meetings for All Special Use Permit Applications

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Article 2: Procedures Section 2.9: Conditional Districts (2) 26 copies of the application package required in (1) above shall be submitted by the applicant. (3) The Planning Board and /or Board of County Commissioners may request additional information in order to evaluate and properly process the application for a CUD. (D) Neighborhood Information Meeting (1) Before a Public Hearing may be held on an accepted application for a CUD, the applicant is required to schedule, with the assistance of the Planning Department, a minimum of one neighborhood information meeting. The purpose of this meeting is to obtain surrounding property owner input and comments on the proposed development project. (2) The applicant shall obtain property owner mailing address information from the Orange County L and ReGGF s depa trnentPlanning Department 5 and shall mail certified notices of the meeting date and time to each property owner within 500 feet of the property for which a CUD has been requested. (3) The notices shall be mailed a minimum of 14 days prior to the date of the proposed Neighborhood Information Meetings. (4) The applicant shall post a sign on the property advertising the date, place, and time of the meeting a minimum of 10 days prior to the date of the meeting.' (4)(5) The Neighborhood Information Meeting shall be held a minimum of 44-45 $ days prior to the date of the Public Hearing where the application is scheduled for review and public comment. (E) Review and Evaluation of Application (1) All CUD applications shall be reviewed and acted upon in accordance with the review procedures for Class A Special Use Permits (Section 2.7). (2) The following shall be considered when evaluating an application for a CUD: (a) The policies and objectives of the Orange County Comprehensive Plan, particularly in relation to the use, proposed site, and surrounding area; (b) The policies and objectives of any adopted Small Area Plan(s) relating to the area; and (c) The potential impacts to the surrounding area including, but not limited, to: traffic, storm water drainage, compatibility of land use activities, and land values. (3) The Board of County Commissioners may attach reasonable and appropriate conditions to the location, nature, and extent of the proposed use. Such conditions may address the following: (a) The characteristics of the proposed use and its relationship to surrounding property and existing land uses, 5 Planning staff already provides this service during the pre - application conference related to a Special Use or Conditional Use project. The proposed amendment is designed to ensure local regulations mirrors current practice. 6 County attorney recommended change denoted in green underlined text. Originally we had decided not to use the full text of 'Neighborhood Information Meeting' and just used 'meeting'. The Attorney's office wanted the language put back and for the Ordinance to spell out 'Neighborhood Information Meeting' in its entirety in this section. Staff inadvertently left out the requirement for posting of a sign advertising the neighborhood meeting. This corrects the error. 8 We are changing the timeframe to 45 days. Orange County, North Carolina — Unified Development Ordinance Page 2 -27