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with the Towns of .Chapel Hill and Carrboro. <br /> ,Or1 NQ ORDINANCE mum='NTS. - _ t, - - 02 - <br /> The proposed amendments to the Zoning Ordinance under ' <br /> • consideration are as follows: - <br /> 1. Amend Article 4 ESTABLISHMENT OF PERMITTED} USE TABLE - . <br /> AND SCHEDULE by designating a new zoning district <br /> classification. Rural Buffer (RB) , as Article 4.2.1. <br /> This amendment would establish the Rural Buffer district <br /> in areas designated as such in the Joint Planning Area <br /> Plan adopted October 13, 1986 . The amendment would also <br /> set forth a list of permitted uses. including uses <br /> permitted by right and uses permitted upon the issuance <br /> .of .a special use permit. <br /> 2. Amend Article .4 ESTABLISHMENT OF PEPI4ITTED USE TABLE <br /> AND SCHEDULE by renumbering Articles 4.2.1 through 4.2.4 <br /> • to Articles 4.2.2 to 4.2.5 to provide consistency in the <br /> . arrangement of zoning district categories in the . Zoning <br /> Ordinance. '• <br /> 3. Amend Article 5 ESTABLISHMENT. OF DIMENSIONAL REQUIREMENTS <br /> by conforming dimensional requirements for residential <br /> and non-residential uses in the proposed Rural 'Buffer <br /> (RB) zoning district to the. adopted Orange County Land <br /> Use Plan. . This amendment would conform the Zoning <br /> Ordinance to the established minimum - lot size per <br /> dwelling unit or use two (2) acres in the Rural Buffer <br /> . • district. 0 <br /> 4. 'Amend Article 12 LANDSCAPING AND SCREENING REQUIREMENTS <br /> by requiring the. same screening and buffer requirements - <br /> , in the Zoning' Ordinance as currently required in Section ' <br /> IV-B-8 of the Subdivision Regulations.. : This amendment <br /> would provide consistency 'between the two ordinances <br /> rather than having different. standards ' in each_ set of <br /> regulations. <br /> 5. Amend Article 6 APPLICATION OF DIMENSIONAL REQUIREMENTS <br /> by adding a new subsection d) . to Article 6.16.12 <br /> Telephone rxchanga. SEithout business D,ffi_ces1_ . <br /> subscriber loop huts, pressure reautatpr ' ,stations, water. <br /> an sanitary sewer pumping stations, In all zoning <br /> districts. This amendment would require a minimum lot <br /> area of 10,000 square feet . for such uses or the minimum <br /> • ' required by the zoning district in which located, <br /> whichever is less. , . <br /> O1 AME pout= SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS <br /> . The proposed amendments to the Subdivision Regulations <br /> under consideration are as follows: <br /> 1. Amend Section IV-B-1 LOT STANDARDS by deleting the <br /> first paragraph and adding a new paragraph to read as <br /> follows: <br />