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ORANGE COUNTY <br />PLANNING BOARD ORDINANCE REVIEW COMMITTEE <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date:February 6, 2019 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No.2 <br />SUBJECT: Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) Text Amendments – Permitted Use <br />Table <br />DEPARTMENT:Planning and Inspections <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />1. Final Draft UDO Amendment(s) Michael D. Harvey, Planner III (919) 245-2597 <br />Craig Benedict, Director (919) 245-2575 <br />PURPOSE:To finalize review of Planning Director initiated Unified Development Ordinance <br />(UDO) text amendments revising the tables of permitted uses and development standards as <br />contained in Article 5 of the UDO. <br />BACKGROUND: As the Board is aware, this project was initiated in 2016 to address the <br />findings of the State Supreme Court in Byrd versus Franklin County related to the delineation of <br />prohibited land uses. Amendments are also necessary to address issues associated with <br />uniformity on how land uses are identified and defined within the UDO. <br />The Planning Board Ordinance Review Committee (ORC) has reviewed this item at several <br />ORC meetings beginning in January of 2017. Agenda materials from these various meetings <br />can be viewed at: <br />http://www.orangecountync.gov/departments/planning_and_inspections/orange_county_plannin <br />g_board_(pb).php#. <br />As you are aware from past correspondence, work on this project has involved the following: <br />a. Collapsing existing tables as contained in Section(s) 5.2.1 (general use zoning <br />districts), 5.2.2 (EDD general use zoning districts), and 5.2.3 (Conditional Zoning <br />districts) into a centralized permitted use table. <br />b. Collapsing similar land uses into single categories to eliminate the ‘exhaustive’ list <br />of land uses, as originally directed. <br />c. Modification of Article 10 Definitions of the UDO to incorporate new and/or revised <br />definitions of various land uses consistent with the proposed new table. <br />d. Incorporating modifications to the Economic Development Hillsborough (EDH) <br />districts as discussed by the BOCC late in 2016. This included expanded <br />allowable land uses within the various EDH general use zoning districts. <br /> 2