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ORANGE COUNTY <br />PLANNING BOARD <br />AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: October 4, 2017 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. 7 <br /> <br />SUBJECT: Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) and Zoning Atlas Amendments – Flood <br />Damage Prevention Regulations and Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA) Overlay District <br /> <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections <br /> <br /> <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />1. Comprehensive Plan and Unified <br />Development Ordinance (UDO) <br />Amendment Outline Form 2017-03 <br />2. Copy of Official Zoning Atlas <br />3. Statement of Consistency - Zoning Atlas <br />Amendments <br />4. Ordinance Amending the Zoning Atlas <br />5. Statement of Consistency – UDO Text <br />Amendments <br />6. UDO Text Amendments (MDH – <br />Pending final legal review) <br />7. Planning Board Meeting Notice Mail Out <br />Certification <br />Michael D. Harvey, Planner III (919) 245-2597 <br />Craig Benedict, Director (919) 245-2575 <br /> <br />PURPOSE: To review and make a recommendation to the BOCC on government-initiated <br />amendments to the: <br />• Orange County Zoning Atlas, and <br />• Orange County Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) <br />eliminating the Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA) Overlay District and updating existing flood <br />damage prevention regulations. <br /> <br />BACKGROUND: Orange County has been a member of the National Flood Insurance Program <br />(NFIP) since approximately 1976. <br /> <br />The NFIP offers flood insurance to homeowners, renters, and business owners if their <br />community participates, specifically through the adoption and enforcement of regulations <br />designed to mitigate/reduce flood risk, in the program including adoption of flood maps denoting <br />areas where flooding is a possibility. Through the enforcement of flood damage prevention <br />regulations, the County requires incorporation of design standards (i.e. elevation of structures <br />and utilities, installation of flood vents, prohibition of specific activities, etc.) in an effort to reduce <br />the risk of loss during a flood. For more background information please refer to Attachment 1. <br /> 19