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Attachment 2 <br /> <br />STATEMENT OF CONSISTENCY <br />OF PROPOSED COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AND UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE <br />AMENDMENTS WITH THE 2030 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AND/OR OTHER ADOPTED <br />COUNTY PLANS <br /> <br />Orange County has initiated text amendments to the Comprehensive Plan and Unified <br />Development Ordinance to potentially allow appropriate agricultural support enterprise uses in <br />the Rural Buffer land use classification. <br /> <br />The Planning Board finds: <br />• The requirements of Sections 2.3 and 2.8 of the Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) <br />have been deemed complete, and <br />• Pursuant to Sections 1.1.5, and 1.1.7 of the UDO and to Section 153A-341 of the North <br />Carolina General Statutes, the Board finds documentation within the record denoting that <br />the rezoning is consistent with the adopted 2030 Comprehensive Plan and/or other <br />adopted County plans. <br /> <br />The amendment is consistent with applicable plans because it: <br />• Supports the following 2030 Comprehensive Plan goals and objectives: <br /> <br />Planning Principle #5: Preservation of Rural Land Use Pattern <br /> <br />Planning Principle #8: Preservation of Community Character <br /> <br />Natural and Cultural Systems Goal 2: Economic viability of agriculture, forestry, and <br />horticulture and their respective lands. <br /> <br />Natural and Cultural Systems Goal 3: Infrastructure and support systems for local and <br />regional agriculture. <br /> <br />Objective AG-3: Develop programs and associated infrastructure facilities to make local <br />farms more economically viable, including local farm product processing, development <br />of a distribution center, and marketing initiatives. <br /> <br />• Achieves completion of the ASE zoning program as recommended in the County’s <br />adopted Agricultural Development and Farmland Protection Plan (2009). <br /> <br />The amendments are reasonable and in the public interest because: <br />• The proposed amendments potentially allow for the location of uses related to agriculture <br />in a rural area of Orange County, thereby helping to strengthen the rural community by <br />possibly providing additional income sources for farmers or other rural interests and by <br />providing a “rural infrastructure” in areas of the county with few non-residential <br />opportunities. <br />• The proposed amendments achieve a reasonable balance of protecting existing land <br />uses while allowing for appropriate development by instituting use-specific standards on <br />most of the additional uses or by requiring a rezoning to a conditional zoning district which <br />1 <br /> <br />19