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6 • Chapter 18; Skateboarding, Animals – Repeal recommended • Chapter 24; Exposure of the Female Body – Repeal recommended • Chapter 34; Solid Waste Management – Update UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE Conditional Use Districts- Better option (Conditional Zoning) already exists in the UDO; both the North Carolina Bar Association and the University of North Carolina, School of Government has recommended that the legislature repeal Conditional Use District authority for multiple reasons. The legislature is currently working on this. It is unduly burdensome to applicants and County staff. It requires a legislative rezoning AND a quasi-judicial hearing. Everything that may be accomplished in a Conditional Use District may be accomplished through Conditional Zoning. • “A conditional use district rezoning is initiated when the owner asks for a rezoning to a new zoning district that does not have any automatically permitted uses, only uses allowed by the issuance of a conditional use permit. In the usual conditional use district rezoning process, the owner applies for a special or conditional use permit for a particular project at the same time the rezoning is requested and the two decisions (the rezoning and the permit) are considered in a single proceeding.” (UNC School of Government) • “This is different from a conditional use district in that there is no accompanying conditional use permit. All of the site specific standards and conditions (sometimes including a site plan) are incorporated into the zoning district regulations.” (UNC School of Government) The Board agreed for John Roberts to begin the repeal to planning board and staff. Reduce the number of land uses - Planning is currently rewriting the Table of Permitted Uses, so this is the best time to reduce the number of land uses. Examples for cleanup: No need for distinctions between Bed & Breakfast, Bed & Breakfast Inn, Country Inn, Residential Hotel, Rooming House, etc. Commissioner Price asked if an Airbnb could go in here. John Roberts said yes it could be here, either within an existing group or as one of its own. Chair Dorosin asked if, referring to his example, there is a difference in all of these, and if the purpose is to have fewer uses and broader definition. John Roberts said yes. Chair Dorosin said an existing Country Inn would still have a category under which it would fall, but it may be a new umbrella term. John Roberts gave the example that bed and breakfast and bed and breakfast inn could be combined into one category with an either/or definitional structure; and country inn, residential hotel and rooming house could be combined into another category with a separate either/or definitional structure. He said these changes will make this easier to read for the applicants. He said every use should be covered as much as possible, but it can be better categorized. The Board agreed by consensus for John Roberts to proceed with the amendment. GENERAL ORDINANCES