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PRF 5 5-abr5 <br /> STATEMENT OF CONSISTENCY 60- <br /> OF PROPOSED COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AND UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE <br /> AMENDMENTS WITH THE 2030 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AND/OR OTHER ADOPTED <br /> COUNTY PLANS <br /> Orange County has initiated text amendments to the Comprehensive Plan and Unified <br /> Development Ordinance to potentially allow appropriate agricultural support enterprise uses in <br /> the Rural Buffer land use classification. <br /> The Board of County Commissioners finds: <br /> • The requirements of Sections 2.3 and 2.8 of the Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) <br /> have been deemed complete, and <br /> • Pursuant to Sections 1.1.5, and 1.1.7 of the UDO and to Section 153A-341 of the North <br /> Carolina General Statutes, the Board finds documentation within the record denoting that <br /> the rezoning is consistent with the adopted 2030 Comprehensive Plan and/or other <br /> adopted County plans. <br /> The amendment is consistent with applicable plans because it: <br /> • Supports the following 2030 Comprehensive Plan goals and objectives: <br /> Planning Principle #5: Preservation of Rural Land Use Pattern <br /> Planning Principle #8: Preservation of Community Character <br /> Natural and Cultural Systems Goal 2: Economic viability of agriculture, forestry, and <br /> horticulture and their respective lands. <br /> Natural and Cultural Systems Goal 3: Infrastructure and support systems for local and <br /> regional agriculture. <br /> Objective AG-3: Develop programs and associated infrastructure facilities to make local <br /> farms more economically viable, including local farm product processing, development <br /> of a distribution center, and marketing initiatives. <br /> • Achieves completion of the ASE zoning program as recommended in the County's <br /> adopted Agricultural Development and Farmland Protection Plan (2009). <br /> The amendments are reasonable and in the public interest because: <br /> • The proposed amendments potentially allow for the location of uses related to agriculture <br /> in a rural area of Orange County, thereby helping to strengthen the rural community by <br /> possibly providing additional income sources for farmers or other rural interests and by <br /> providing a "rural infrastructure" in areas of the county with few non-residential <br /> opportunities. <br /> • The proposed amendments achieve a reasonable balance of protecting existing land <br /> uses while allowing for appropriate development by instituting use-specific standards on <br /> most of the additional uses or by requiring a rezoning to a conditional zoning district which <br /> will allow for the imposition of conditions that would mitigate any adverse impacts of <br /> development. <br /> i <br />