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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: June 5, 2018 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. 5-d <br /> <br />SUBJECT: Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) Amendments – Subdivisions <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 2018-05 <br />2. Session Law 2017-10 <br />3. Excerpt of Draft May 2, 2018 Planning <br />Board Minutes and Statement of <br />Consistency <br />4. Statement of Consistency <br />5. Proposed UDO Text Amendments <br />6. Legal Advertisement <br />Michael D. Harvey, Planner III, (919) 245-2597 <br />Craig Benedict, Director, (919) 245-2575 <br /> <br />PURPOSE: To hold a public hearing on a Planning Director initiated Unified Development <br />Ordinance (UDO) text amendment revising regulations governing the processing of subdivision <br />applications to incorporate recent changes in State law. <br /> <br />BACKGROUND: On May 4, 2017, Session Law 2017-10 (Attachment 2) modified the review of <br />subdivision proposals by local governments, specifically: <br />1. Created a new category of exempt subdivision. <br />STAFF COMMENT: There are currently 4 categories of exempt subdivision (i.e. <br />activities that do not constitute a division of land and are expressly exempt from <br />established review and approval processes) specifically: <br />a. Combination/recombination of existing parcels so long as the resultant lots <br />are equal to or exceed local standards and do not result in an increase in <br />the total number of existing parcels; <br />b. Division of land into 10 acre parcels of property; <br />c. Public acquisition of land for widening/opening streets; and <br />d. Division of land in single ownership, the entire area of which is no greater <br />than 2 acres, into not more than 3 lots if no street dedication is involved and <br />the lots are equal to/exceed local regulations. <br />1