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Attachment 1 <br /> 12 <br /> BOCC INFORMATION REQUEST OUTLINE <br /> Meeting Date: June 6, 2019 Response Date: June 11, 2019 <br /> ISSUE: Identify ways to encourage or support the development of affordable <br /> housing with incentives, payment in lieu, and other means <br /> Responding Department: Planning & Inspections <br /> A. AMENDMENT TYPE <br /> Map Amendments <br /> Land Use Plan: Yes❑ No❑ Maybe❑ <br /> Zoning Yes❑ No❑ Maybe❑ <br /> Text Amendments <br /> ❑ Comprehensive Plan Text: Yes❑ No❑ Maybe❑ <br /> ❑ UDO Text: <br /> ❑UDO General Text Changes Yes❑ No❑ Maybe❑ <br /> ❑UDO Development Standards Yes❑ No❑ Maybe❑ <br /> ❑UDO Development Approval Yes❑ No❑ Maybe❑ <br /> Processes <br /> Section(s): TBD <br /> B. RATIONALE <br /> 1. Purpose/Mission <br /> Staff has been tasked with identifying ways to encourage or support the development <br /> Lof affordable housing with incentives, payment in lieu, and other means. <br /> 2. Analysis <br /> Staff will develop an Info Item memo over the summer for a September 2019 BOCC <br /> meeting agenda outlining affordable housing issues. Attached to this outline is the <br /> Land Use and Development section of the County's Affordable Housing Strategic <br /> Plan which provides more detail on the regulatory aspect of the affordable housing <br /> issue. <br /> Within Orange County's planning jurisdiction, there are some constraints to providing <br /> higher-density housing; these constraints include watershed density regulations <br /> related to water supply watersheds and the absence of public water and sewer lines <br /> which would support denser housing, which is necessary from the <br /> economic/monetary side of land development. <br /> As is shown on the attached Table of Permitted Uses for residential uses, Orange <br /> County permits manufactured homes in all of the residential zoning districts and in <br /> some other types of districts; manufactured housing has been an avenue for many of <br /> the more affordable housing units within the County's planning jurisdiction. <br /> Additionally, the County permits duplexes in all of the residential zoning districts and <br /> multi-family housing is permitted in many of the residential zones. <br /> 1 <br />