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of the land uses contained wihhin a specific general use zoning district may be inappropriate or incompatable with the goals and objectives of the Ordinance. The Conditional Use District (CUD) process is designed to address these situations. Amend Article Eight (8) Special Uses, Article Two (2) Board of County Commissioners and its Administrative Mechanisms Section 2.1.3, Article Three (3) Establishment of Zoning Districts and Zoning Map, Article Four (4) Establishment of Permitted Use Table and Schedule, Article Twenty (20) Amendments, and Article Twenty-one (21) Administration to create a new section of the Zoning Ordinance outlining the Conditional Use Permitting/Review process. Amend Section Three (3) Land Use Plan and Section (4) Implementation and Evaluation of the Orange County Comprehensive Plan to reference Conditional Use Districts within the Land Use Element Categories -Zoning District Matrix Table. Purpose: To receive citizen comment on proposed amendments to the Zoning Ordinance and Land Use Element of the Comprehensive Plan to address conditional uses B. NON-PUBLIC HEARING ITEMS 1. Agricultural Support Enterprises Manual: Economic Development, Planning, and Environment and Resource Conservation staff will present the first draft of a new Agricultural Support Enterprises Manual. Amulti-departmental effort, the Agricultural Support Enterprises initiative has explored ways to add new farm- . related uses the zoning ordinance to provide farmers with opportunities to gain more revenue from their farms. These new uses would be logical extensions to existing farm operations, such as corn mazes (agri-tourism), roadside stands (direct marketing) and small-scale processing facilities to make sauces (value- added), as well as services related to farming such as feed stores and large animal veterinary services. The Manual is designed to explain these new uses and their respective approval procedures in straightForward language. Staff will also present draft text amendments to allow for changes to the Orange County Zoning Atlas through a new conditional district rezoning process. Unlike general rezoning, property subject to the conditional district rezoning process may be used only for a specific land use(s), based on asite-specific development plan. This new mechanism would be used to rezone properties for agriculturally related businesses as an extension of the existing Agricultural Services floating zoning district. The Rural Buffer area is not included in the current discussion of conditional district zoning. The Rural Buffer will be addressed at a later time through procedures defined in the Joint Planning Agreement.