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NC Highway 57 Speedway Area Small Area Plan DEW V • PROPOSED ORDINANCE TO JOINT QUARTERLY PUBLIC HEARING August 27, 2007 An Ordinance Amending The Orange County Zoning Ordinance Be it ordained by the Board of Commissioners of the County of Orange, North Carolina, that the Orange County Subdivision Regulations are hereby amended as follows: Section 1. Add a definition to ARTICLE 22 DEFINITIONS regarding Rural Economic Development as follows: Rural Economic Development Area is a zoning district created to allow additional non - residential development within rural areas of the County, specified in the Comprehensive Plan, on property that has been identified as being potentially suitable for non- residential development. The zoning district shall be designated first with the under -lying base zoning (i.e., AR) and then with a REDA to designate that a site - specific conditional use development plan is part of the rezoning approval. Section 2. Add a definition to ARTICLE 22 DEFINITIONS regarding Rural Economic Development as follows: Development plan is a type of plan that becomes part of a conditional use approval made part of REDA rezoning approval and provides guidance for the preparation of a site plan. Section 3. Add a new Section 4.2.26 to ARTICLE 4. ESTABLISHMENT OF PERMITTED USE TABLE AND SCHEDULE to create a new Conditional Use District as follows: Section 4.2.26 Conditional Use District. This ordinance contains regulations that establish zoning districts and assign land uses to one or more of these districts. The ordinance also provides standards for development that regulate lot size, yards, parking and open space. There are certain circumstances that arise when a general zoning district designation would not be appropriate for a certain property, but a conditional use permitted under the district would be consistent with the objectives of this ordinance. In areas where the Board of County Commissioners has approved a small area plan there may be opportunities to allow for specific classifications of non - residential development within the small area plan not normally permitted with the underlying zoning district. To accommodate these situations, this Section establishes the Conditional Use (CU) approval process. The CU approval process addresses those situations involving a rezoning when a particular use may be acceptable for a given area but the general classification that would allow a specific use would not be acceptable. This process allows the Board of County Commissioners to: 1. Approve a rezoning proposal for a specific, defined use, 2. Promote economical and efficient land uses within the rural areas of the County, 45