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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date.: June 12, 2007 Action Agenda Item No. ~- ~ i i SUBJECT: Agricultural Support Enterprises (ASE) DEPARTMENT: Economic Development PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No Planning & Inspections ATTACHMENT(S): 1) Matrix 2) Schedule 3) Draft Rural Buffer Memo INFORMATION CONTACT: Tina Moon, 210-2595 , Noah Ranells, 245-2330 Michael Harvey, 245-2607 PURPOSE: The purpose of this item is to: 1) respond to questions and comments from the May 21, 2007 Joint BOCC/Planning Board Work Session on the Agricultural Support Enterprises project, 2) request the Board's endorsement of those concepts, or elements, which staff believe are key to the success of the project, and 3) receive authorization to complete the project in accordance with the schedule provided as Attachment 2. BACKGROUND: At the May 2007 Joint BOCC/Planning Board Work Session, staff presented the Board with an update of an on-going project (currently called Agricultural Support Enterprises) to provide more business opportunities for local farmers and requested the Board's endorsement of three underlining concepts. At previous meetings on this topic, staff presented the Board with colored "matrices" and "color progression charts" showing how new agricultural uses could fit within the framework of the County's existing land uses. These materials were intended to provide the Board with illustrative examples, a general sense of the types of uses that staff hoped to add to the ordinance, and the type of permitting process that staff believed would be appropriate for each use. Staff shared the most recent matrix with the Board during a February 28, 2005 Work Session, at which time the project was referred to as "Rural Enterprises." While there were specific comments regarding the matrix, the focus of questions at that meeting shifted to broader issues. What were the economic ramifications of these uses? How would staff enforce them? How could these uses compatibly occur within suburbanizing areas? Could rural enterprises dovetail with a TDR program? Staff noted changes that Board members requested for specific entries within the matrix, particularly the request to divide the intensive uses into two categories (shown in italics). This change would allow the Board ample opportunity to review and consider applications for the most intensive uses. Staff presented updates on the project to the Board on May 23, 2005 and May 22, 2006.