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<br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />PLANNING BOARD <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: September 3, 2014 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. 9 <br /> <br />SUBJECT: Unified Development Ordinance Private Road and Access Standards <br /> <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) N <br /> <br /> <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />1. Amendment Outline Form <br /> UDO / Zoning-2014-11 <br />2. Section 7.8 Access and Roadways, <br /> Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) <br />3. Emergency Access to Trail Systems at <br /> Orange County Parks – Draft Goal and <br /> Objectives <br />4. Fire Chief Council Comments <br /> <br /> <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Abigaile Pittman, Transportation/Land Use <br />Planner, 245-2567 <br /> Michael Harvey, Current Planning <br /> Supervisor, 245-2597 <br />Tom Altieri, Comprehensive Planning <br />Supervisor, 245-2579 <br /> Craig Benedict, Planning Director, 245-2592 <br /> <br /> <br />PURPOSE: To receive information about a current multi-department/advisory board project <br />involving the review of private road and access standards and to provide comments. <br /> <br />BACKGROUND: <br />In the accepted 2014 Work Plans for the Orange Unified Transportation Board (OUTBoard) and <br />the Planning Board, both have activities identified pertaining to the review of private road and <br />access standards in the Unified Development Ordinance (UDO). The Board of County <br />Commissioners (BOCC) authorized the Planning staff to proceed with this multi- <br />department/advisory board review of UDO private road, access and trail system standards with <br />respect to Comprehensive Plan Goals and Objectives, and development amendments for <br />consideration. The OUTBoard reviewed this item on April 16 and August 20, 2014; and <br />Planning staff reviewed this issue with DEAPR staff on June 16, 2014, and with Emergency <br />Services staff and the Fire Chief Council on July 9, 2014. Details regarding the review and <br />analysis to date are is provided in Attachment 1, the Amendment Outline form for UDO/Zoning- <br />2014-11. <br /> <br />Current UDO Regulations <br />The impetus for this work plan task stems primarily from issues relating to the County’s private <br />road regulations found in Sections 7.8.4 and 7.8.5 of the UDO (Attachment 2). Currently the <br />UDO regulates private roads as follows: <br /> <br />1. The standards and specifications for private roads apply to subdivision in the County <br />depending on whether it is a Class A or B road: <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />95