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1 ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: June 6. 1994 Agenda Abstract Item#�N SUBJECT: PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE - SPECIAL.JUNE 30, 1994 PUBLIC HEARING DEPARTMENT: Planning PUBLIC HEARING: Yes X No ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: Proposed Legal Notice Planning Director X2592 Proposed Public Hearing Items PHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough 732-8181 Mebane 227-2031 Durham 688-7331 Chapel Hill 967-9251 PURPOSE: To consider the legal notice and items for discussion at a special public hearing scheduled for June 30, 1994. BACKGROUND: At its May 17, 1994 meeting, the Board of Commissioners received a report on proposed Rural Character Strategies. Discussion was continued to the May 26, 1994 budget presentation meeting. At that meeting, the Commissioners decided to conduct a special hearing at the end of June to consider the following items: 1. Rezoning of the remaining 37% of the County's planning and zoning jurisdiction from one dwelling unit per acre to one dwelling unit per two acres to establish a "baseline" from which to implement rural character strategies; and 2. Receipt of citizen comment on the following open space preservation issues: a. Whether clustering was a desirable and marketable form of development; b. Whether a 50 percent open space requirement was appropriate, and how should open space be defined; and C. Whether density bonuses should be provided as incentives for preserving open space. The Board of Commissioners reviews proposals scheduled for public hearing for consistency with general County policy and presentation format. The proposed amendments to the Zoning Ordinance seek to establish a"base-line"minimum lot size requirement of two acres throughout the County's planning and zoning jurisdiction from which proposed Rural Character Strategies may be implemented. Proposed Zoning Ordinance teat amendments to be considered at the special June 30, 1994 public hearing are listed below.