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43 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> PLANNING BOARD <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: December 7, 2022 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. 9 <br /> SUBJECT: Unified Development Ordinance Text Amendment— Final Subdivision Plat School <br /> District Signature Block <br /> DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> 1. Background Information regarding SAPFO Tyler Sliger, Planner II (919) 245-2586 <br /> 2. Statement of Consistency Cy Stober, Director (919) 245-2592 <br /> 3. UDO Text Amendment <br /> 4. Ordinance Review Committee (ORC) Meeting Notes <br /> 5. Letter of Support from Orange County Schools <br /> PURPOSE: To review and make a recommendation to the Board of County Commissioners <br /> (BOCC) on County-initiated text amendments to the Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) to <br /> remove the requirement in Section 7.13.3 (F)(3)(g), the school district signature block on final <br /> subdivision plats. <br /> BACKGROUND: Attachment 1 contains information on the Schools Adequate Public Facilities <br /> Ordinance (SAPFO), an ordinance the Planning Board is not directly involved in administering. <br /> Planning staff will present an overview of the SAPFO and CAPS (Certificate of Adequate Public <br /> Schools) program at the Planning Board meeting so that Planning Board members may have a <br /> better understanding of the SAPFO. The issuance of CAPS prior to development approval is one <br /> aspect of the overall SAPFO and the Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) that accompany the <br /> SAPFO, which are prescriptive regarding most aspects of SAPFO administration. None of these <br /> documents require school district signatures on plats and none of the other MOUs/SAPFO parties <br /> (i.e., the municipalities) require such plat signatures. The MOU/SAPFO requirement is only for <br /> issuance of the CAPS certificate (if capacity is determined to be available) by the relevant school <br /> district, and this requirement is not proposed for modification as part of this proposed text <br /> amendment. <br /> Subdivisions that follow the traditional or major subdivision review process have to receive several <br /> signatures before recording the final plat. Orange County currently requires signature by the <br /> relevant school system, per the language found in Section 7.13.3 (F)(3)(g) of the UDO. Research <br /> into the plat certificate requirement has shown that the requirement was added to Orange County's <br /> former Subdivision Regulations as a small portion of a multi-part amendment to the Subdivision <br /> Regulations in the year after SAPFO amendments were added to the former Zoning Ordinance. <br /> Agenda materials and minutes from that time do not speak directly to the addition of the plat <br /> signature block, other than a statement found in minutes made by previous staff that the signature <br /> block addition was "needed for SAPFO." None of the municipal signatories amended their <br /> regulations to require this plat and signature, and, as evidenced in Attachment 5, this requirement <br />