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4 Adjustment or BOCC) an applicant, even with the submittal of expert testimony and material evidence, had `not convinced me' a proposal complied with the UDO. Planning staff has requested a member of the County Attorney's office be present to discuss the issue(s). As a reminder, the amendment package was further modified to incorporate changes requested by the Planning Director at the March 6, 2019 regular meeting. Specifically, staff incorporated `retreat centers' (i.e. assembly land uses providing commercial rental space for events) as a permitted use within the: • Neighborhood Commercial (NC-2); • Community Commercial (CC-3); • General Commercial (GC-4); • Economic Development Buckhorn Low Intensity (EDB-1); • Economic Development Eno Low Intensity (EDE-1); and • Economic Development Hillsborough Office/Retail (EDH-4). If action on the amendment(s) is taken this evening, the proposed amendments are expected to be on the BOCC's public hearing agenda on either April 19 or May 2, 2019. Analysis: As required under Section 2.8.5 of the UDO, the Planning Director is required to: `... cause an analysis to be made of the application and, based upon that analysis, prepare a recommendation for consideration by the Planning Board and the Board of County Commissioners'. The amendments are necessary to address the legal sufficiency of the UDO with respect to the findings of Byrd versus Franklin by spelling out allowable and prohibited land uses. Staff is eliminating the unnecessarily repetitive, and often confusing, delineation of allowable land uses by creating a central table of permitted uses and has combined similar land uses into single categories to ensure uniformity with respect to application of development criteria and permitting. Planning Director Recommendation: The Planning Director recommends approval of the Statement of Consistency, as contained in Attachment 2, and the revised UDO Text Amendment package, as contained within Attachment 3. 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 for the text amendment will be paid from FY2018-19 Departmental funds budgeted for this purpose. Existing Planning staff included in the Departmental staffing budget will accomplish the work required to process these amendments. RECOMMENDATION(S): The Planning Director recommends the Planning Board: 1. Review the proposed amendments to the UDO, 2. Deliberate on the proposal as desired, 3. Consider the Planning Director's recommendation(s), and 4. Make a recommendation to the BOCC on: a. The Statement of Consistency for proposed UDO Text Amendment(s) (Attachment 2), and b. Proposed UDO Text Amendment(s) (Attachment 3).