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NC Highway 57 Speedway Area Small Area Plan <br />Implementation. All new development or rezoning approvals shall be compliant <br />with County air quality standards. . <br />PRINCIPLE 3 -- Restrict growth and development so that it complements the rural <br />character and lifestyles <br />The Task Force finds that existing non - residential developments generate significant off -site <br />impacts including, but not necessarily limited to: noise, litter, stormwater runoff, traffic <br />congestion, light intrusion, and dust generation. Unregulated, these impacts diminish the rural <br />character and overall quality of life of the surrounding community and contribute ` to local <br />residents concerns over expanding non - residential development within the area. <br />Task Force members suggest that a process to make these existing uses conforming to local land <br />use regulations should be established to address off -site impacts and concerns over their status <br />and nonconforming land uses. <br />Goal 6. Existing non_ conforming uses should be made conforming uses and brought into <br />compliance. <br />Objective 6 -1. - Under the appropriate conditions, both the Speedway and the go -kart <br />facility will be brought into zoning compliance within three to five years through the use <br />of a conditional use zoning approval process. <br />Policy. The BOCC should work to find an appropriate mechanism to make the existing <br />non - residential land uses, specifically the Speedway and go -kart track properties, <br />conforming uses of property through amendments to the Zoning Ordinance. <br />Implementation. The Task Force recommends that the BOCC consider adopting <br />a new conditional use zoning district, or Rural Economic Development Area <br />(REDA), to address for non - residential development within the Study Area. <br />In reviewing various zoning options the Task Force concluded that other options, <br />such as amendments to the existing AR zoning district to allow the existing non- <br />residential land uses to be listed as permitted/special uses of property, were not <br />viable because of the timing for amending basic concepts in the Comprehensive <br />Plan and political reluctance to consider commercial rezoning. Task Force <br />members concluded that the REDA process represented the most reasonable <br />method to address the existing non - residential developments within the Study <br />Area. <br />Implementation. The Orange County Comprehensive Plan should be amended <br />to include references to a REDA conditional zoning district and establish <br />necessary guidelines governing the location and development of such districts. <br />W <br />