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1.b. Child Care Facilities Zoning Amendment <br />State administrative laws and regulations regarding child day care facilities <br />have continued to evolve and change since the County Board last <br />amended its zoning regulations in 1991, Planning staff has met with <br />representatives of the North Carolina Division of Child Development in <br />May 1999 and again on July 21, 2Q05 to discuss the difference in <br />language between Orange County and State child day care regulations, <br />Consensus of the groups is that amending the language of the child care <br />provisions and definitions of the Zoning Ordinance would be the <br />appropriate way to deal with this issue, <br />Prospective child care providers face confusing language differences in <br />the Orange County Zoning Ordinance and respective licensing provisions <br />of the North Carolina General Statutes. Confusion results from unlike <br />terminology and standards. Zoning Ordinance language in Sections 4,3 <br />Permitted Use Table, 6,27 Large Day Care Homes, 8,8,16 Day Care <br />Facilities, Section 1Q.4 Off-Street Parking Requirements, and Article 22 <br />Definitions are dissimilar to those found in Article 7, Chapter 110 of the <br />General Statutes, Child Care Facilities, as amended. <br />A map of the facilities will be available for review at the August 22 <br />meeting, <br />Staff is looking for direction on this zoning and subdivision issue <br />(,.fn {+~h.ir.r _nv. q)lir t I .~"~d~ Ih.v - .;u-I ~: S) i~~~.sl inn} mi.nud~~. il, ~.i ii?rnr 1, ih LU:I~c <br />