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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: October 9, 2007 Action Agenda Item No. SUBJECT: Zoning Ordinance Text and Map Amendments -Proposed Efland-Cheeks Highway 70 Corridor Zoning Overlay District and Amendment to Section 6.23.3 of the Zoning Ordinance pertaining to Impervious Surface Ratio Regulations DEPARTMENT: Planning Department PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) NO ATTACHMENTS: 1. Proposed Zoning Ordinance Text Amendments 2. Map Depicting Proposed Boundaries of ECOD 3. Q&A Document that was included with Notification Letter 4. Staff Responses to Comments and Questions made at the August 27, 2007 Quarterly Public Hearing 5. Draft Planning Board Minutes of 9/5/07 Meeting (excerpt of this item only) INFORMATION CONTACT: Craig Benedict, Director, (919) 245-2592 Perdita Holtz, Special Projects Planner, (919) 245-2611 Michael Harvey, Zoning Enforcement Officer, (910) 245-2607 PURPOSE: To consider making text and map amendments to the Zoning Ordinance and Zoning Atlas regarding a proposed new zoning overlay district -Efland-Cheeks Highway 70 Corridor Overlay District (ECOD) -and to consider amending impervious surface limits prescribed in Section 6.23.3 of the Zoning Ordinance in regards to the Upper Eno and Back Creek Protected Watersheds. BACKGROUND: One of the recommendations of the adopted Efland-Mebane Small Area Plan (EMSAP) is to allow commercial development in certain areas along the Highway 70 corridor and to allow for conversion of some residential structures to office type uses. A Land Use Element text amendment regarding 10-Year Transition areas was heard at the May 21, 2007 Quarterly Public Hearing and was adopted by the BOCC at the August 21, 2007 BOCC meeting. This Zoning text and map amendment is the next step towards allowing non-residential uses in specific areas along the Highway 70 corridor. This is a smaller scale economic development opportunity that is being expanded in appropriate areas.