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Article 3: Base Zoning Districts <br /> Section 3.7: Economic Development Districts <br /> <br /> <br />Orange County, North Carolina – Unified Development Ordinance Page 3-52 <br /> <br /> <br />EDH-1 <br />ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT <br />HILLSBOROUGH LINEAR OFFICE <br />DIMENSIONAL STANDARDS <br />Lot size, min., (square <br />feet) 20,000 <br />Lot Width, min. (feet) 100 <br />PURPOSE <br />Front Setback from ROW, <br />min. (feet) 50 <br />The purpose of the Economic Development Hillsborough Linear <br />Office (EDH-1) District is to provide locations for low to moderately <br />intense medical, professional, administrative and government office <br />on small to mid-sized sites in the designated Hillsborough Economic <br />Development District. <br /> <br />The district is intended to be located on the periphery of established <br />residential areas and along major and minor thoroughfares. The <br />district is established to provide convenient locations for offices, the <br />size and operating characteristics of which require limited parking <br />and which generate little traffic. <br /> <br />Standards are designed so that this district may serve as a <br />transitional land use between residential districts and higher, more <br />intense land uses. <br />APPLICABILITY <br />This district will usually be applied where the following conditions <br />exist: <br /> <br />1. This district will be applied in the Hillsborough Economic <br />Development District. <br /> <br />2. This district shall only be applied where water and sewer are <br />available at the site or are to be made available to the site as part of <br />the development approval process. <br />Side Setback, min. (feet) 15 [1] <br />Corner Setback, min. <br />(feet) 40 [1] [2] <br />Rear Setback, min. (feet) 50 [1] <br />Height, max. (feet) 30 [3] <br /> <br />DIMENSIONAL STANDARDS NOTES: <br />[1] Required side and rear setbacks adjacent to residentially zoned <br />land shall be equal to the required side or rear setback of the <br />adjacent residential district. <br />[2] Any corner lot having an abutting interior lot on its side street <br />shall observe a front yard setback from both streets provided, <br />however, that this requirement does not reduce the width suitable for <br />a building on said lot to less than 25 feet. (See graphic in Section <br />6.2.7). <br />[3] Two feet of additional height shall be allowed for one foot <br />increase of the required front and side setbacks. <br />[4] R = residential, NR = non-residential, CU = conditional use <br /> <br />Floor Area Ratio, max. <br />R-CU[4] <br />NR .45 <br />NR-CU .50 <br />Required Open Space <br />Ratio, min. .55 <br />Required Livability Space <br />Ratio, min. R-CU .55 <br />Gross Land Area, <br />min./max. <br />(square feet) <br />none <br />Required <br />Pedestrian/Landscape <br />Ratio, min. <br />NR <br />NR-CU .05 <br /> <br /> 21