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development since 2001. The purpose of ASE is to enable bona fide farmers to engage in uses related to agriculture on their farmland in order to generate additional farm income. The ASE program will potentially allow for development of more agriculturally-related uses in the county by utilizing a new conditional zoning district (ASE-CZ). The proposed amendments will also expand agriculturally-related uses in some of the general use zoning districts. 2. Analysis As required under Section 2.8.5 of the UDO, the Planning Director is required to: ‘cause an analysis to be made of the application and, based upon that analysis, prepare a recommendation for consideration by the Planning Board and the Board of County Commissioners’. The Agricultural Support Enterprises (ASE) project has been in development since 2001 and has been known by other names (“Rural Enterprises” and “Agricultural Services”) in the past. The project has been on several Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) agendas through the years and the following meeting materials can be reviewed for additional context: February 23, 2004 http://orangecountync.gov/OCCLERKS/0402231.pdf March 29, 2004 http://orangecountync.gov/OCCLERKS/040329.htm (JPA Information Item) February 28, 2005 http://orangecountync.gov/OCCLERKS/050228c1.pdf May 23, 2005 http://orangecountync.gov/OCCLERKS/050523d1.pdf May 22, 2006 http://orangecountync.gov/OCCLERKS/060522d2.pdf May 21, 2007 http://orangecountync.gov/OCCLERKS/070521d1.pdf June 12, 2007 http://orangecountync.gov/OCCLERKS/0706124ii.pdf August 27, 2007 http://orangecountync.gov/OCCLERKS/070827d1.pdf May 14, 2013 http://orangecountync.gov/occlerks/130514.pdf September 9, 2013 http://orangecountync.gov/occlerks/130909.pdf This project is included in the “Future Phase Suggestions” section of the UDO “Implementation Bridge.” A multi-department staff group has been working on this program. Departments include DEAPR, Economic Development, Environmental Health, and Planning & Inspections (including Building Code staff). The proposed amendments build heavily upon the work that has been completed since 2001, with some minor deviations to account for changes in statutes related to bona fide farms and to follow the general cadence of the County’s UDO (the former program had been written to fit into the former Zoning Ordinance) while maintaining the integrity of the UDO. As an example of a minor deviation, the former program proposed to allow for several of the new use categories to be permitted by right in the R-1 (Rural Residential) zoning district. Because this is inconsistent with the purpose of the R-1 zoning district, which is “to provide locations for rural non-farm residential development…” [underline added], staff is not including these uses as permitted by right in the R-1 district; property owners currently zoned R-1 who wish to engage in these uses can choose to apply for the new ASE-CZ zoning district or even the AR (Agricultural Residential) zoning district (in which these uses are proposed to be 30