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ORANGE COUNTY 1 BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: August 1, 1989 Action Agenda Item # SUBJECT: SUBDIVISION REGULATION TEXT AMENDMENT (SECTION III B CLASSIFICATION OF SUBDIVISIONS SECTION IV - B - 10 CLUSTER SUBDIVISIONS) DEPARTMENT: PLANNING PUBLIC HEARING: Yes X No ATTACHMENT(S) : INFORMATION CONTACT: Mary Scearbo Proposed Amendments Extension 347 5/22/89 Public Hearing Minutes 6/19/89 Planning Board Minutes TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough - 732-8181 Durham - 688-7331 Mebane - 227-2031 Chapel Hill - 967-9251/968-4501 PURPOSE: To consider a proposed to amendment Section III-B of the Subdivision Regulations, pertaining to the definition of "Minor Subdivision" . BACKGROUND: Under existing regulations, no more than four lots may be created out of any one tract of land through the minor subdivision process. A "tract" is considered to be the lot-of-record (that lot which existed at the time the Subdivision Regulations first went into effect) . Since 1981, the number of major subdivisions creating less than four lots has represented at least twenty percent of majors processed annually in Orange County, yet involves less than five percent of the total number of lots produced by the major subdivision process. Under current procedures, a one-lot major subdivision requires the same type of review as a plan proposing fifty lots, including approval of both a Concept Plan and Preliminary Plat prior to Final Plat approval. The proposed amendment would establish a twenty-four (24) month time period during which a maximum of four (4) new lots may be created from an existing lot. (The Planning Board previosly recommended that only three new lots be permitted through the minor subdivision process, with the fourth lot being the remainder. )