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Mr. Marvin Collins Page Two _ Octc beer 3, 1986. Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan which requires a . minimum of 2 acres per unit in the rural buffer area.. First of all, lots of record and nonconforming lots are specifically addressed in the Zoning Ordinance and should be treated accordingly. Any proposed development which has not received either preliminary I plan approval, in' the case of a subdivision request, or has not been granted a special use permit, in the case of a planned development, must, I think, meet the 2 acre minimum lot size requirement. Section III-B-1 of the subdivision regulations requires the planning department to review a subdivision sketch design plan for "compatibility with the comprehensive plan for the County." Section IV, entitled "REQUIRED MINIMUM DESIGN STANDARDS,' recites the policy of subdivision regulations, that is, "the avoidance of congestion and overcrowding and the creation of conditions essential to public health, safety and the general welfare," and then goes on to state that these goals are to be accomplished through the application of design standards "providing for the distribution of population and traffic, safe and coordinated street systems, approved water supply and sewage disposal systems, useable lots and conformance to plans for Orange County. . .adopted by the Board of Commissioners. " (Emphasis added.) Subsection B-1 of Section IV requires lots served by on site sewage disposal and water systems to be at least 40,000 square feet and lots served by public or community water and sewer to comply with the appropriate zoning ordinance. These requirements are minimum lot size requirements. The idea that the lot size requirements are minimums is further underscored by the need to meet watershed protection standards regardless of the lot size necessary to accomplish those standards. The Zoning Ordinance permits the development of. planned development districts. Section 7.1 of the Zoning Ordinance provides, in the first paragraph, that planned development districts may be established where "suitability of [land] for the development proposed shall be determined primarily by reference to the comprehensive plane-"-=-.The PD analysis may also give "due consideration to the existing and perspective character of surrounding development. " Furthermore, the last paragraph of Section 7.1 states that PD districts "are intended to accomplish the purposes of zoning and other applicable regulations to an equivalent or higher degree than where such regulations are intended to control unscheduled development on