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Requires amendments to JointPlanningArea documents <br />Orange County, Towns of Chapel Hill & CarrboromustapproveJPA <br />amendments <br />March 27, 2014 joint planning public hearing <br />JPA documents must be amended before these proposed <br />UDO/Comprehensive Plan changes can be adopted by OrangeCounty <br />Will be on longerreview/approval timeframe <br />The more intensive uses could not be considered in the Rural Buffer, under the <br />current proposal <br />Unified Development Ordinance & Comprehensive Plan Amendments <br />Only a few changes/additions would be necessary to the ASEtext applicable outside of <br />the Rural Buffer to allow ASE uses within the Rural Buffer <br />District chart in Article 3 <br />Additions toRB zoning district in TableofPermitted Uses for General Use <br />ZoningDistricts <br />Noting that some uses shall not be approved in the ASE-CZ if located in the <br />Rural Buffer <br />Additions to some of the use-specific standards in Article 5 <br />Comprehensive Plan amendment to allow newASE-CZ zoning district in the Rural <br />Buffer land use category <br />Project Review/Approval Process <br />Depends on use being proposedwithin the Rural Buffer <br />Three basic processes: <br />Staff review/approval <br />Special Use Permit <br />Class B is reviewed/approved by Board of Adjustment <br />Class A is reviewed/approved by Board of County Commissioners (none <br />in RB) <br />Rezoning <br />General Use district (not applicable in the Rural Buffer) <br />Conditional district (includingproposed ASE-CZ) <br />All projects within the Rural Bufferare sent to JPA partners for review and comment, in <br />accordance with the JPA Agreement <br />Permitted Outright vs. SUP or ConditionalZoning <br />Less intensive uses added to the Tableof Permitted Uses as permitted outright <br />Subject touse-specific and general development standards <br />CommunityAgricultural Processing Facility <br />Community Farmers Market <br />Cooperative Farm Stand <br />Community Meat ProcessingFacility <br />Non-Farm Use of Farm Equipment <br />Rural Special Events <br />Staff approval <br />More intensive uses must be permitted through either the Special Use Permit process or <br />rezoned as an ASE-CZ <br />Class B Special Use Permit <br />Microbrewery with Minor Events <br />Winery with Minor Events <br />55