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Amendment Package for Mailed Notification Requirements <br />Notes <br />The pages that follow contain the amendments necessary to the Unified Development <br />Ordinance (UDO) text to ensure public notification requirements are consistent among the <br />various procedures for mailed notifications. Amendments adopted on November 5, 2015 <br />expanded the mailed notification distance from 500 feet to 1,000 feet for several types of actions <br />and call for notifications to be mailed via first class mail. Staff has evaluated all procedures in <br />the UDO that require mailed notifications to ensure requirements are consistent throughout the <br />UDO. Staff recommends procedural consistency in order to avoid potential confusion. <br /> <br />Staff notes that Section 5.10.8(2) (not included in this package) requires a neighborhood <br />information meeting in conjunction with a balloon test for telecommunication facilities. The <br />current (unchanged in 2015) mailed notification distance for this type of facility is 1,000 feet and <br />applicants are required to mail the notice via certified mail. Staff is not recommending a change <br />to this particular process because a non-governmental entity is responsible for the mailings. <br /> <br />Proposed additions/changes to existing UDO text are depicted in red. Users are reminded that <br />these excerpts are part of a much larger document (the UDO) that regulates land use and <br />development in Orange County. The full UDO is available online at: <br />http://orangecountync.gov/planning/Ordinances.asp <br /> <br />Please note that the page numbers in this amendment packet may or may not necessarily <br />correspond to the page numbers in the adopted UDO because adding text may shift all of the <br />text/sections downward. <br /> <br />Some text on the following pages has a large “X” through it to denote that these sections are not <br />part of the amendments under consideration. The text is shown only because in the full UDO it <br />is on the same page as text proposed for amendment. Text with a large “X” is not proposed for <br />deletion; proposed deletions are shown in red strikethrough text. <br /> <br /> 20