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1 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: October 5 , 1994 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item # yjr-At <br /> SUBJECT: ZONING ORDINANCE TEXT AMENDMENT <br /> Article 20. 6 Public Hearing and Notice Thereof <br /> DEPARTMENT: PLANNING PUBLIC HEARING Yes X No <br /> ATTACHMENT(S) : INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> Mary Willis, Extension 2583 <br /> Proposed amendment <br /> G.S. 153A-343 TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br /> 8/22/94 Public Hearing Minutes Hillsborough -732-8181 <br /> Citizen correspondence Durham -688-7331 <br /> 9/19/94 Planning Board Minutes (draft) Mebane -227-2031 <br /> Chapel Hill -967-9251 <br /> PURPOSE: To consider a proposed amendment to notification <br /> requirements for amendments to the Zoning Atlas. <br /> BACKGROUND: Effective January 1, 1994, the North Carolina General <br /> Statutes (G.S. 153A-342) allow for certain rezoning <br /> actions to be advertised through enhanced newspaper <br /> advertisement instead of notification by mail to all <br /> affected property owners. <br /> The proposed amendment specifies situations in which <br /> notification by mail of individual property owners is not <br /> required. Rezonings which meet one or more of these <br /> criteria may be advertised in a local newspaper for four <br /> consecutive weeks. The advertisement would include a map <br /> of the proposed rezoning. The minimum size of the <br /> advertisement would be 1/2 of a newspaper page. <br /> Zoning text or map changes which involve a particularly <br /> large area (such as the recent watershed protection <br /> amendments and zoning of Little River and Cedar Grove <br /> Townships) could be advertised at less cost for materials <br /> and staff time <br /> The proposed amendment was presented for public hearing on <br /> August 22, 1994. One citizen spoke in opposition to the <br /> proposed amendment, and one letter (attached) expressing <br /> opposition has been received. The Board of Commissioners <br />