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The amendment was presented for adoption consideration at the September 1 BOCC meeting. During discussion, BOCC members identified concerns with the proposed standards as being too restrictive for residents to provide care for mentally or physically impaired relatives, friends, or neighbors. Specific issues were identified regarding the relationship requirement between the occupant of the temporary health care structure and the occupant of the single family dwelling unit, North Carolina state residency standards, and the regulation requiring removal of the unit within 60 days. Due to these concerns, the BOCC voted to reopen the public hearing and refer the item back to the Planning Board and staff to modify the proposed amendment to address comments received at the May 26 Quarterly Public Hearing and the September 1 BOCC meeting. Comments made at this meeting are included in Section C.1 of Attachment 1. Minutes from this meeting are included in Attachment 6. As a result of comments received at the September BOCC meeting, Planning staff has drafted two options for the Planning Board to review and discuss. Option A (Attachment 2) revises the proposed amendment, based on Session Law, to address the specific items of concern identified by the BOCC at the May and September meetings. Option B (Attachment 3) creates an entirely new land use, temporary custodial care units, which combines temporary health care structure standards outlined in Session Law 2014-94 and existing standards related to temporary mobile home units (custodial care) contained in Section 5.4.4. This option which would allow for temporary health care structures and temporary mobile homes up to 1,000 square feet in size to be placed as an accessory use to an existing single family dwelling unit, remove the required Special Use Permit for temporary mobile homes currently contained in the UDO, and address items of concern identified by the BOCC at the May and September meetings. In addition, both options will address comments regarding the number of unrelated persons that can live in a dwelling unit by increasing the number from three to five based on the North Carolina Residential State Building Code. Attachment 1 contains additional information and analysis regarding this amendment. Proposed text amendment language can be found in Attachment 2 and Attachment 3 within a “track changes” format. FINANCIAL IMPACT: Consideration and approval will not create the need for additional funding for the provision of County services. Costs for the required legal advertisement were paid from FY2014- 15 Departmental funds budgeted for this purpose. Existing Planning staff included in the Departmental staffing budget will accomplish the work required to process this amendment. RECOMMENDATION(S): Planning staff recommends the Ordinance Review Committee review and comment upon the proposed amendments to the UDO. 3