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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: May 4, 2006 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. Cj - ~ <br />SUBJECT: Child Day Care Facilities Zoning Text Amendments <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) <br />ATTACHMENTS: <br />1. Proposed Ordinance Amendments <br />2. Letter from Nancy Coston, Director of <br />Ccunty Department of Social Services <br />and March 17 Memo from Gwen Harvey <br />3. Portions of the Draft Minutes of <br />November 21, 2005 Quarterly Public <br />Hearing <br />4, Portions of the March 1, 2006 Planning <br />Board Meeting Minutes <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Craig Benedict, Director, 245-2592 <br />Glenn Bowles, Planner II, 245-2577 <br />Note: The November 21, 2Ql)5 Public Hearing is open until fhe Planning Board <br />recommendation returns to the Board of County Commissioners for decision. <br />PURPOSE: To hear and make a decision on the Administration and Planning Board <br />recommendations for proposed Zoning Ordinance text amendments regarding child day care <br />facilities. <br />BACKGROUND: State administrative laws and regulations regarding child day care facilities <br />have continued to evolve and change since the BOCC last amended its zoning regulations in <br />1991. Planning staff met with representatives of the North Carolina Division of Child <br />Development in May 1999 and again on July 21, 2005 to discuss the differences in language <br />between Orange County and State child day care regulations. Consensus of the groups is that <br />amending the language of the child care provisions and definitions of the Zoning Ordinance is <br />needed to provide consistency in laws for day care providers, for users of day care facilities and <br />for the general public. The attached zoning text amendments bring the definitions and <br />provisions for Child Care Facilities in Orange County into agreement with those of the State. <br />Language differences in the Orange County Zoning Ordinance and respective licensing <br />provisions of the North Carolina General Statutes result from use of unlike terminology and <br />standards, Zoning Ordinance language in Sections 4.3 Permitted Use Table, 6.27 Large Day <br />Care Homes, 8,8,16 Day Care Facilities, Section 10.4 Off-Street Parking Requirements, and <br />Article 22 Definitions are dissimilar to those found in Article 7, Chapter 110 of the North Carolina <br />General Statutes, Child Care Facilities, as amended. <br />