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41 A final concern is the 20,000140,000 rule and its relation to water usage thresholds and permitted uses. As an excvnple,some uses,such as individual convenience stores and fast food establishments,are permitted only after approval of a Special Use Permit through the Planned Development process. Projects which exceed specified thresholds for water usage are also required to secure approval through the same process. With the addition of the 20,000140,000 rule, it has beeen pointed out that almost all potential uses would be required to secure a Special Use Permit.If that is the intent, the 20,000140,000 rule should be eliminated and all uses made subject to the Special Use provisions. As noted above, the Ordinance Review Committee did not support a Special Use approval process. The Committee did not support the 20,000 140,000 rule either, noting that it concurred with Commissioner Willhoit's assessment. C. Are there variations of or alternatives to the 20 000/40 000 rule? One option is eliminate the water usage and use category thresholds completely and rely solely on the 20,0001140,000 rule. If there are still concerns about convenience stores and fast food restaurants, they should be alkrwed 2ahh as part of a multi-occupancy building. Anoth.-r option is to use the provisions of Article 6.3 of the Zoning Ordinance as a threshold instead of the 20,000/40,000 rule. As applied to the Economic Development zoning district, no more than one principal structure (containing or one or more uses) would be permitted by right on any lot greater than two acres in size. Otherwise, a Class A Special Use Permit and Site Plan must be approved by the Board of Commissioners. A final option is simply to establish a site plan approval procedure involving only the Planning Board. Although the Ordinance Review Committee did not support such an option, one is presented as Option #4 below. d. What lime frames are involved in staff Planniar Board and Commissioner approval options? Staff h,as developed a specific step-by-step approach to securing site plan approval. The total time involved in such an approval would be 33 calendar days.Approval through a Special Use Permit process would take 85 calendar days.An abbreviated process,i.e., site plan approval by the Planning Board would take 40 days. These times represent the fastest that an application would be approved and are illustrated on the attached calendars.) OP77ON#2-SUBDIVISION APPROACH(RECOA®IFNDED BY ORDINANCE REVIEW COAW TEE) The option recommended by the Ordinance Review Committee is to amend the Subdivision Regulations to provide for Planning Board and Commissioner involvement in project approval. This could be accomplished as follows: 1. Amend Section H:Definitions and Section III-B:Classification of Subdivisions to change the definition of"minor subdivision" to read as follows: Subdivision, Minor - A division of a tract of land that is not located in an Eoonamic Development zoning district`and that does not: The addition of the boldface italics wording would require that all subdivisions in an Economic Development zoning district be approved as"major"subdivisions,thus requiring Planning Board and Commissioners approval. 2. Amend Section IV-C: Interim Development Standards by changing the Section number to Section IV-D. 3. Add a new Section IV-C: Economic Development Standards to read as follows: IV-C- Economic DaxlWamat Standards In nummmng subdivision proposals far land located in an Economic Devek pment zoning district the Planning Staff and Planning Board shall consider the overall design of the proposal in terns of compliance with