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Amend plans and regulations as necessary in order to establish two new zoningoverlay <br />districts. <br />Comprehensive Plan Text Amendment (chart) <br />What is a zoning overlay district? <br />Regulatory tools that create a specialzoningdistrict, placed over the existing base <br />zones, which identifiesspecial provisions in addition to, or in lieu of, those in the <br />underlying base zone. <br />Purpose is to guide development within the specified area. <br />Overlaydistrict regulations can be more restrictive orless restrictive than the regulations <br />that apply to the underlying base zones. <br />Zoning AtlasAmendment (map) <br />Future Land Use Map (Map) <br />Relationship to Existing Efland-Cheeks Overlay District (map) <br />UDO Text Amendments <br />Amendments to several sections necessary to implement the new zoningoverlay <br />districts <br />Intent of the newdistricts: <br />Allowfor a more urbanstyle ofdevelopment in the Efland Interstate Overlay District <br />Allow for an urban village style of development in the Efland Village Overlay District <br />Why Necessary? <br />Different development regulations necessary in order to reflect thereality of smaller <br />sized lots (both existing and anticipated) served by water and sewer. <br />Encourage high quality growth in an area of the county proposed foradditional growth <br />while protecting existing development and communitycharacter. <br />Ensure good planningpractices related tosite design, transportation, and architecture <br />are achieved. <br />General Information <br />Many of the proposed changes in the amendment packet contain footnotes explaining <br />thereason/rationale for the proposed change. <br />Website contains more information <br />Questions and Answers <br />Synopsis of ProposedNew Regulations and/or Differences fromExisting Regulations <br />Orange County, Planning Department, "Current Interest Projects") <br />Exceptions and Existing Uses <br />Single-family detachedresidences (both existing and new) are not subject to the <br />requirements of the overlaydistricts. <br />Otherexisting land uses arenot required to come into conformance withthe new <br />regulations so long as the propertycontinues to be used as it is currently being used. <br />The requirements of the Major TransportationCorridor (MTC) Overlay District arenot <br />being altered. <br />50