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`. &II • O R A N G E C O U N T Y 1 BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: May 29- 1990 Action Agenda Item # 14- I -� SUBJECT: SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS TEXT AMENDMENT Secion II - Definitions (Subdivision) DEPARTMENT: PLANNING PUBLIC HEARING X Yes No ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: Proposed Amendment Mary Scearbo ext. 2583 TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough - 732 -8181 Durham - 688 -7331 Mebane - 227 -2031 Chapel Hill - 967 -9251 PURPOSE: To receive public comment on a proposed amendment to the Subdivision Regulations to allow the combination or recombination of non - conforming lots. BACKGROUND: A subdivision is defined as any "division of a tract or parcel of land into two or more lots, building sites, or other divisions for the purpose of sale or building development..." . Also included in the definition are several exemptions, which include the combination, or recombination of existing lots. In order for a combination or recombination to be exempt from the Subdivision Regulations, the resultant lots must equal or exceed certain standards of the Subdivision Regulations. Those standards include lot area, lot width, access to a public road, and Health Department approval of a sewage disposal site. Non - conforming lots, by definition, do not meet these requirements. Most non - conforming lots are so defined because they do not meet existing standards for lot size. Lot width is also a common non -- conformity. The proposed amendment would allow non - conforming lots to be combined or recombined if no additional non - conforming aspects of the lots are created and the resultant lots, if already developed, meet applicable impervious surface standards. RECOMMENDATION: The Administration recommends that the proposed amendment be referred to the Planning Board for recommendation.