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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: December 3, 2007 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. (~ - J~ <br />SUBJECT: Zoning Ordinance Text and Map Amendments -Proposed Efland-Cheeks <br />Highway 70 Corridor Zoning Overlay District and Amendment to Section 6.23.3 <br />of the Zoning Ordinance pertaining to Impervious Surface Ratio Regulations <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning Department PUB<_IC HEARING: (Y/N) NO <br />ATTACHMENTS: <br />1. Proposed Zoning Ordinance Text <br />Amendments <br />2. Map Depicting Proposed Boundaries of <br />ECOD <br />3. Staff Responses to Comments and <br />Questions made at the August 27, 2007 <br />Quarterly Public Hearing <br />4. Public Information Meeting Notification <br />Materials <br />5. Public Information Meeting Sign-in Sheet <br />6. Excerpt of 9!5/07 Approved Planning <br />Board Meeting Minutes <br />7. Excerpt of 10/9/07 Approved BOCC <br />Meeting Minutes <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Craig Benedict, Director, (919) 245-2592 <br />Perdita Holtz, Special Projects Planner, <br />(919) 245-2611 <br />Michael Harvey, Zoning Enforcement <br />Officer, (919) 245-2607 <br />PURPOSE: To consider making text and map amendments to the Zoning Ordinance and <br />Zoning Atlas regarding a proposed new zoning overlay district -Efland-Cheeks Highway 70 <br />Corridor Overlay District (ECOD) -- and to consider amending impervious surface limits <br />prescribed in Section 6.23.3 of the Zoning Ordinance in regards to the Upper Eno and Back <br />Creek Protected Watersheds. <br />BACKGROUND: One of the recommendations of the adopted Efland-Mebane Small Area Plan <br />(EMSAP) is to allow commercial development in certain areas along the Highway 70 corridor <br />and to allow for conversion of some residential structures to office type uses. A Land Use <br />Element text amendment regarding 10-Year Transition areas was heard at the May 21, 2007 <br />Quarterly Public Hearing and was adopted by the BOCC at the August 21, 2007 BOCC meeting. <br />This Zoning text and map amendment is the next step towards allowing non-residential uses in <br />specific areas along the Highway 70 corridor. This is a smaller scale economic development <br />opportunity that is being expanded in appropriate areas. <br />