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ORANGE COUNTY 025 BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: February 23, 1987 Action Agenda Item# SUBJECT: PROPOSED ZONING ORDINANCE AMENDMENT (ARTICLE 11.7 NONCONFORMING LOTS) *************************************************************************** DEPARTMENT: PLANNING PUBLIC HEARING: _x_Yes No *************************************************************************** ATTACHMENTS: CONTACT: Marvin Collins Proposed Ordinance TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Amendment Hillsborough 732-8181 Chapel Hill 967-9251 Durham 688-7331 Mebane 227-2031 *************************************************************************** PURPOSE: To receive citizen comment on a proposed amendment to the Zoning Ordinance. NEED: Article 11.7 of the Zoning Ordinance requires that nonconforming lots of record. in the same ownership and with continuous frontage. be combined to create conforming lots. On January 5. 1987 . the Board of Commissioners approved the Rural Buffer (RB) zoning district designation and its application to 38.000 acres of land surrounding the Chapel Hill-Carrboro area. Data from the Orange County Land Records Office indicates that 244 lots (5.7% of all lots) would have to be combined to meet the two-acre minimum lot size requirement. Of these lots. 142 (3.3% of all lots) are developed. A moratorium on enforcement of Article 11.7 was approved by the Commissioners. pending a public hearing to consider revisions to the requirements. Any amendment would be applicable in all zoned townships. IMPACT: Approval of the amendment would allow the construction of single-family detached dwellings and customary accessory structures on nonconforming lots of record. .As applied to the Rural Buffer district, the amendment would affect 102 lots (2.4% of all lots) .