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I O R A N G E C O U N T Y BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS O5 ti ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Me-ling Date No elelleL l 19k. Action enda Item. SUBJECT: PROPOSED ZONING ORDINANCE TEXT AMENDMENTS ( 1 ) Design Standards - Existing Mobile Home Parks (2) Off-Street Parking (Handicapped Parking Facilities) DEPARTMENT: PLANNING PUBLIC el i C �E A R I NG �_yes n..... ._._ ._XX No Attachment( s) information Contact: MARVIN COLLINS * Proposed Text Amendments Minutes of 10-6-86 Pub I is Ho ar i ng Draft 10--20-86 Planning Board Minutes (* See 10-6-86 Agenda Packet for Text Amendments) Telephone. Numbers _- Hillsborough - 732-8181 Durham - 688-7331 Mebane - 227-2031 Chap- 1 Hill - 967-9251 PURPOSE: To consider proposed amendments to the Zoning. To receive the Planning Board recommendations. NEED: These items were submitted to publlic hearing on August 25, September 16 and October 6, 1986. Concerns have. identi- fled by mobile home park owner/operators and residents about the application of design standards In Article 6.21 . 1a)2) and requested deletion of the Article from the Zoning Ordinance. Removal from the Ordinance would "grandfather" existing parks, excluding them from the application of new design standards. The provisions related to handicapped parking facilities stem from a concern that no requirements for such facilities exist in the Zoning Ordinance . If provided, handicapped parking can only be required' presently through conditions of approval, attached to subdivisions and planned developments, and through application of State Building Code requirements. IMPACT: The proposed text amendments, if approved, would exclude exist- ing mobile home parks from complying with new design standards for mobile home parks and would require new development to provide off-street parking faciliities for handicapped persons . . RECOMMENDATION: The Planning Board recommends approval of the proposed