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S4 PROPOSED ORDINANCE AMENDMENT ORDINANCE: Zoning Ordinance REFERENCE: Article 2 - Administration Section 2.2.14.3 - Consideration of Amendments ORIGIN OF AMENDMENT: —X—Staff Planning Board BOCC Citizen STAFF PRIORITY RECOMMENDATION: _$—High Middle Low PUBLIC HEARING DATE: May 26, 1992 PURPOSE OF AMENDMENT: To provide greater flexibility to the Board of Commissioners in conducting public hearings which involve principal amendments to the Comprehensive Plan or portions thereof. IMPACTS /ISSUES: In April of 1988, Article 2, Administration, of the Zoning Ordinance was amended to define the Comprehensive Plan and add procedures for its amendment. Prior to that time, procedures for amending the Land Use Plan (as referred to then) were contained in a policy statement approved by the Planning Board and Board of Commissioners. When the Zoning Ordinance was amended in 1988, the procedures were incorporated into Article 2 with little or no change. Section 2.2.14.3 of Article 2 requires that principal amendments to the Comprehensive Plan only be considered once each year at the quarterly public hearing in February. Since the adoption of the amendment, few applications for principal amendments to the Comprehensive Plan have been processed under the procedures. While applications for principal amendments have generally been held in February, there have been some exceptions. For example, amendments to the Comprehensive Plan involving four township components were considered at a May, 1988 public hearing. More recently, 1992 amendments to the Eno and Chapel Hill township components incorporated the New Hope Open Space Corridor into the Comprehensive Plan. Insofar as other types of amendments are concerned, flexibility is available to the Board of Commissioners in calling special public hearings. While secondary amendments to the Comprehensive Plan, rezoning requests, special use permits, and planned development applications are generally heard at the quarterly public hearings, the language contained in the Zoning Ordinance allows lattitude in setting public hearing dates. Recently, an application was received for the University Station project, a proposed rural village to be located southeast of Hillsborough. The application involves a principal amendment to the Comprehensive Plan, and strict interpretation of Section 2.2.14.3 suggests that the application be considered at the February, 1993 public hearing. Because of difficulties associated with holding