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Amendment Package to Revise the Existing Public Hearing Process <br />(Option A – Planning Board Review/Recommendation Before Public Hearing <br /> for Legislative Items) <br />Notes <br />The pages that follow contain the amendments necessary to the Unified Development <br />Ordinance (UDO) text to revise the existing public hearing process for Comprehensive Plan- <br />and Unified Development Ordinance-related hearing items. This option would revise the existing <br />cadence and would have the Planning Board make its recommendation before the public <br />hearing for legislative items. The cadence for Class A Special Use Permits (SUPs)would not be <br />revised; the Planning Board would continue to make its recommendation on SUPs after the <br />quasi-judical public hearing held by the Board of County Commissioners. <br /> <br />Proposed additions/changes to existing UDO text are depicted in red. Some of the proposed <br />changes utilize footnotes to provide a brief explanation as to rationale. Users are reminded that <br />these excerpts are part of a much larger document (the UDO) that regulates land use and <br />development in Orange County. The full UDO is available online <br />at: http://orangecountync.gov/planning/Ordinances.asp <br /> <br />Please note that the page numbers in this amendment packet may or may not necessarily <br />correspond to the page numbers in the adopted UDO because adding text may shift all of the <br />text/sections downward. <br /> <br />Some text on the following pages has a large “X” through it to denote that these sections are not <br />part of the amendments under consideration. The text is shown only because in the full UDO it <br />is on the same page as text proposed for amendment. Text with a large “X” is not proposed for <br />deletion; proposed deletions are shown in red strikethrough text. <br /> <br />9