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Article 2: Procedures Section 2.3: Comprehensive Plan Amendments prescribed in Section 2.3.2(B); or (D) The Planning Director. 2.3.4 Classification of Amendments 1 Amendments to the Comprehensive Plan or portion thereof are classified as "principal" or "secondary" amendments. (A) Principal Amendments Include (1) Additions to or modifications of policies, objectives, principles or standards; (2) The creation of new activity nodes or additions to existing activity nodes which exceed ten acres in land area; or (3) Proposals for new freestanding plan areas or additions to existing areas that exceed 100 acres in land area. (B) Secondary Amendments Include (1) The expansion of an activity node where the additional area is contiguous to an existing node and does not increase its land area by more than ten acres; (2) The expansion of a designated plan area where the additional area is contiguous to the existing plan designation and does not increase its land area by more than 100 acres; (3) A correction of an error or omission; or (4) Revisions to any factual or descriptive material. 2.3.5 Public Hearing Required A public hearing shall be held before adoption of any proposed Comprehensive Plan amendment. The Board of County Commissioners and the Planning Board shall hear applications and receive public comment for proposed Comprehensive Plan amendments in a Quarterly Public Hearing at one of the public hearings for UDO/Comprehensive Plan-related items; dates for said public hearings shall be designated each year in accordance with Section 2.8.12. 2.3.6 Notice Requirements for Public Hearings (A) Notice of the public hearing shall be given by publishing said notice at least twice in a newspaper of general circulation in the County, stating the time and place of such hearing and the substance of the proposed amendment. (B) This notice shall appear in said newspaper for two consecutive weeks with the first notice appearing not less than ten days nor more than 25 days before the date set for the public hearing. In computing the notice period, the day of publication is not to be included, but the day of the hearing is to be included. (C) The minimum published size of the notice shall be 25 square inches. (D) In the case of amendments to the Land Use Plan (map) Future Land Use Map 2, the Planning Director shall prominently post a notice of the public hearing on the site proposed for the land use change or on an adjacent public street or highway right of way not less than ten days before the date set for the public hearing. 1 If the proposed text amendments are adopted, public hearings will no longer be held on only a quarterly basis. Because of this, the text in Section 2.3.7 (A) (B) and (C) becomes obsolete which means that the text in this section (2.3.4) is effectively no longer relevant. Amendments to the Comprehensive Plan could be heard at any of the public hearings that will be designated each year for UDO/Comprehensive Plan-related items. Note that all subsequent subsections on 2.3 will be renumbered with the removal of Section 2.3.4. 2 The official name of the map was clarified/changed on February 7, 2012. Orange County, North Carolina – Unified Development Ordinance Page 2-5