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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: May 3, 2005 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 9- 6 <br />SUBJECT: Legal Advertisement for May 23, 2005 Quarterly Public Hearing <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />1. Proposed Legal Advertisement <br />2. Map -Orange County Existing and <br />Proposed Residential Zoning Densities <br />(to compliment text newspaper ad) <br />3. Summary Table and Ordinance -Orange <br />County Zoning Ordinance 5.1.1 & 5.1.2 <br />Proposed Revisions <br />4. Table -Density Change Summary for <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Craig Benedict, Planning Director, ext 2592 <br />Gene Bell, Planner III, ext 2589 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />Option 3.1 <br />PURPOSE: To receive authorization to submit the Quarterly Public Hearing Legal <br />Advertisement (Attachment 1) for publication for the May 23, 2005 Quarterly Public Hearing, <br />with the Planning Department proposing the addition of an approximate %Z page advertisement <br />which includes a color map (Attachment 2) to compliment the text advertisement of the <br />proposed Residential Density Zoning Text Amendments. <br />BACKGROUND: The next regular quarterly public hearing is scheduled for May 23, 2005. A <br />summary of each item proposed for public hearing is provided. Full text is scheduled to be <br />forwarded May 13~h. Staff is available to answer questions or research issues prior to the public <br />hearing. <br />A. PUBLIC HEARING ITEMS <br />1. Orange County Flood Damage Prevention Ordinance Amendments <br />PURPOSE: Orange County proposes amendments to the existing Flood Damage <br />Prevention Ordinance, The County first joined the FEMA -National Flood Insurance <br />Program (NFIP) in 1975 and entered the regular phase of the NFIP an March 16, 1981 when <br />it enacted the Flood Damage Prevention Ordinance. This is also the same effective date of <br />the Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) flood maps referenced in the ordinance. The BOCC <br />last revised the ordinance in 1995. <br />The revisions are proposed because the State of North Carolina Emergency Management <br />has developed a new model flood damage prevention ordinance for non coastal jurisdictions <br />like Orange County, Amendments that go beyond the minimum flood damage prevention <br />standards are required forjurisdictionstyanting to participate in the Community Rating <br />System (CRS) program, Region IV of FEMA (the Atlanta region, which includes the <br />