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Article 2: Procedures Section 2.3: Comprehensive Plan Amendments Orange County, North Carolina – Unified Development Ordinance Page 2-7 change or on an adjacent public street or highway right of way not less than ten days before the date set for the public hearing. (1) When multiple parcels are included within a proposed Land Use Plan (map) amendment affected, a posting on each individual parcel is not required, but the county shall post sufficient notices to provide reasonable notice to interested persons. (E) In the case of amendments to the Land Use Plan (map), written notice of the public hearing shall be sent by first-class mail to all property owners, as listed in the Orange County tax records, whose property is affected (property that is included in the proposed land use plan amendment) and all property owners or within 500 feet. Said notice shall be mailed at least 14 days, but not more than 25 days, prior to the date of the public hearing.12 2.3.7 Consideration of Amendments 13 (A) Principal amendments shall generally only be considered once each year at the quarterly public hearing in February. A proposed amendment may be considered at any Board of County Commissioners meeting designated as a Quarterly Public Hearing. (B) If a principal amendment is scheduled by the Board of County Commissioners for other than the February quarterly public hearing, it shall be scheduled during one of the quarterly public hearings held in May, August, and November . (C) Secondary amendments may be considered four times each year at the a quarterly joint public hearings, in February, May, August, and November. (D) A proposed amendment may be considered in conjunction with a rezoning request for the same property if the requests are in compliance with an adopted small area plan.14 (E) Requests for a rezoning not in compliance with an adopted small area plan, conditional use district, and/or special use permit may only be considered at subsequent hearings or meetings following approval of the proposed amendment to the Comprehensive Plan.15 2.3.8 Application Requirements (A) Generally (1) All applications for amendments to the Comprehensive Plan shall be submitted on forms supplied by the Planning Department and shall be signed. (2) Three copies of the application shall be submitted to the Planning Director. 12 (D) and (E) have been rewritten and combined into (A) above. 13 Staff proposes this section be modified, in conjunction with the proposed deletion of Section 2.3.4, so that any proposed amendment to the Comprehensive Plan can be heard at any of the quarterly public hearings, rather than limiting “principal” amendments to “generally” only the February QPH. (It is noteworthy that principal amendments in recent years have been heard at hearings that were not in February, such as the land use classification change in the Efland-Mebane corridor where Morinaga’s factory is now located, which was heard at a May QPH). 14 The Staff Attorney has recommended deletion of this provision due to concerns over who determines compliance with a small area plan and how compliance is determined. 15 The Staff Attorney has recommended deletion of this provision because of the modification made in (D). If the modification in (D) is not made, the language of (E) should be modified because of the concern that a restriction on a rezoning application has been placed in the Comprehensive Plan amendment section. 69