Agenda - 06-07-2016 - 5-f - Comprehensive Plan and Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) Amendment Outline and Schedule for the September 2016 Quarterly Public Hearing

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1 ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: June 7, 2016 Action Agenda Item No. 5-f SUBJECT: Comprehensive Plan and Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) Amendment Outline and Schedule for the September 2016 Quarterly Public Hearing — Secondary Uses DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: 1. Comprehensive Plan and Unified Ashley Moncado, Planner II, (919) 245- Development Ordinance (UDO) 2589 Amendment Outline Form Craig Benedict, Planning Director, (919) 245-2575 Steve Brantley, Economic Development Director, (919) 245-2326 PURPOSE: To consider and approve process components and schedule for an upcoming government-initiated Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) amendment for the September 12, 2016 Quarterly Public Hearing regarding the establishment and permitting of secondary uses in the UDO. BACKGROUND: Orange County's UDO currently categorizes uses permitted by right into two types: principal uses and accessory uses. Principal uses are listed in the various Tables of Permitted Uses (Section 5.2 of the UDO) whereas accessory uses are activities that may or may not be listed in the Table of Permitted Uses, but are allowed because they are considered customary and ancillary to a certain principal use. For example, a gas station (principal use) may include a car wash as an accessory use because car washes are considered usual and customary to the principal use of a gas station. Any principal use permitted in a zoning district can be developed as a stand-alone use. In working with site selection specialists for various economic development projects, Planning staff has identified that the UDO does not contain a by-right process that allows for developments that include uses that may not be defined or viewed as customary or ancillary to the principal use. For example, an office, research, and manufacturing business park which includes a restaurant primarily serving onsite employees, but also open to the public could not be permitted by right in the general use zoning districts. Instead the project would be required to follow either the Master Development Plan Conditional Zoning District (MDP-CZ) process or Conditional Use District process. In order to make the County more competitive in the site selection process for these types of multi-use projects, Planning staff is proposing that the concept of a "secondary use" be added to the UDO.