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Sec. 17. The Board of County Commissioners may, as <br /> part of the Orange County Zoning Ordinance, Subdivision <br /> Regulations or Planning Code, provide for the reservation of <br /> residential housing units in number proportionate to the <br /> housing needs in Orange County for low and moderate income <br /> families and include provisions for the purchase of units or <br /> rent payments subsidized by private or public funds. <br /> Sec. 18. Zoning. The Board of Commissioners of <br /> Orange County, in addition to the authority conferred upon it <br /> by any general or local law, is hereby empowered by ordinance <br /> to regulate in any portion or portions of the Orange County <br /> zoning jurisdiction the uses of buildings and structures for <br /> trade, industry, residence, recreation, public activity or <br /> other e <br /> pur se, and t <br /> a c <br /> (r3eu on, soil cat el <br /> c r he <br /> in addi <br /> by Pa <br /> development <br /> to ge <br /> use districts. <br /> this <br /> a <br /> a <br /> to perm i <br /> t i o on servation, forestry or other purpose. <br /> n to th <br /> Statute <br /> ment dist <br /> t e eiounse, of land for trade, industry, <br /> s <br /> agriculture , water supply <br /> conse <br /> For all of these purposes, the County may, <br /> xpress authority and power conveyed to it <br /> 18 of Chapter 153A of the North Carolina <br /> Generr <br /> 1 3 Artic <br /> provide for the creation of planned <br /> icts and special use districts in addition <br /> ral <br /> it is the purpose and intent of <br /> permit the County to create general use districts <br /> in which a variety of uses are permitted, and to also create <br /> planned development and special use districts in which uses <br /> are permitted only upon satisfactory compliance with <br /> conditions under which such use will be permitted. <br /> -1- <br />