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<br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: August 21, 2001 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. yb <br />SUBJECT: Rural Guest Establishments Zoning Ordinance Amendments <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning 8~ Inspections PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) NO <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Craig Benedict, Director, ext. 2592 <br />Robert Davis, Planner III, ext. 2580 <br />Tina Moon, Planner II, ext. 2583 <br />1985 Amendment TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Comments from Noah Ranells Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 9fi8-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 33fi-227-2031 <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />Proposed Ordinance <br />Public Hearing Ordinance w/ revisions <br />Planning Board Minutes <br />1996 Amendment <br />PURPOSE: To make a decision on the proposed Rural Guest Establishment Amendments to <br />the Zoning Ordinance. <br />BACKGROUND: <br />Request <br />• To establish a Rural Guest Establishments use in the Permitted Use Table and create all <br />associated criteria (approval procedures, performance standards, parking, etc). <br />• The zoning ordinance does not have a land use category for bed and breakfast <br />establishments. Traditionally, the county has only considered bed and breakfast <br />operations as part of the Historic Sites Non-Residential Reuse/Mixed Use category (S54). <br />• Restricting bed and breakfast operations to historic sites excludes all other properties that <br />may be otherwise suitable for this type of land use. <br />• The existing Historic Sites Non-Residential Reuse/Mixed Use category will remain in the <br />zoning ordinance. <br />Article 8.8.24 Historic Sites Non-Residential Reuse/Mixed Use, of the Orange County Zoning <br />Ordinance, has been amended twice. <br />• On September 3, 1996, the County Commissioners voted unanimously to replace the <br />word "structures" with the word "sites". <br />• On April 1, 1985, the County Commissioners voted unanimously to revise Section <br />8.8.24.2 of the Standards of Evaluation as indicated by underlining (See attached) and to <br />delete the word "Exterior' in item (c). <br />Location <br />Amendments will apply to the Orange County planning jurisdiction, outside of the municipalities <br />and their extraterritorial jurisdictions. <br />