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1112=159=144090140.amemonsamoo.............■------ <br /> ORANGE COUNTY 167 <br /> BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date May 214. 1911 Action Agenda <br /> Item # 12......./.!_g= <br /> 1)-5-1:;■ <br /> SUBJECT: SUBDIVISION REGULATION TEXT AMENDMENT <br /> (SECTION III - B CLASSIFICATION OF SUBDIVISIONS <br /> SECTION IV - B - 10 CLUSTER SUBD/VISIONS) <br /> DEPARTMENT: PLANNING PUBLIC HEARING: x Yes No <br /> ATTACBMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: Mary Scearbo <br /> Proposed Amendments Extension 347 <br /> TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br /> Hillsborough - 732-8181 <br /> Durham - 688-7331 <br /> Mebane - 227-2031 <br /> Chapel Hill - 967-9251/968-4501 <br /> PURPOSE: To receive citizen comment on a proposed amendment to <br /> Section III-B of the Subdivision Regulations to revise <br /> the definition of "Minor Subdivision" . <br /> BACKGROUND: Under existing regulations, no more than four <br /> lots may be created out of any one tract of land <br /> through the minor subdivision process. A "tract" is <br /> considered to be the lot-of-recor (that lot which <br /> existed at the time the Subdivision Regulations first <br /> went into affect) . Since 1981, the number of major <br /> subdivisions creating less than four lots has <br /> represented at least twenty percent of majors <br /> processed annually in Orange County, yet involves less <br /> than five percent of the total number of lots produced <br /> by the major subdivision process. <br /> Under current procedures, a one-lot major subdivision <br /> requires the same type of review as a plan proposing <br /> fifty lots, including approval of both a Concept Plan <br /> and Preliminary Plat prior to Final Plat approval. <br /> The proposed amendment would establish a twenty-four <br /> (24) month time period during which a maximum of four <br /> (4) new lots may be created from an existing lot. <br /> (The planning Board recommended that only three new <br /> lots be permitted through the minor subdivision <br /> process, with the fourth lot being the remainder. ) <br /> , There is also a proposed revision in Section IV-310 <br /> Cluster Subdivision. This is a minor change to <br /> : <br />