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70 EXHIBIT D SPECIAL USE PERMIT APPLICATION FOR ADDITIONAL GRAVE SITES AT THE JUDEA REFORM CONGREGATION CEMETERY Applicant's Statement of Compliance The following information provides evidence to support the required findings for approval of a Special Use Permit as listed in the Orange County Unified Development Ordinance, Article 5.3.2(A)(2): Finding # 1: The use will maintain or promote the public health, safety, and general welfare, if located where proposed and developed and operated according to the plan as submitted. As described below under Specific Standards and in the drawings included in this application, the proposal complies with and conforms to applicable laws, regulations, etc. that were designed to achieve this public health, safety, and general welfare objective. This finding is supported by the safety and design elements of the physical facility; the applicant's 40 years of experience operating the existing cemetery safely and in harmony with neighboring uses; and the provision of adequate space for funeral parking; negligible impact on traffic generation (typically fewer than 30 vehicles per funeral), with virtually all services held during midday non- rush-hour periods. The existing and proposed use fulfills a range of important practical and spiritual needs of the community. Finding # 2: The use will maintain or enhance the value of contiguous property. The Owner considers this finding to be satisfied per the written testimony of a local real estate expert as presented in Exhibit C-2. Finding # 3: The location and character of the use, if developed according to the plan submitted, will be in harmony with the area in which it is to be located;and the use is in compliance with the plan for the physical development of the County as embodied in these regulations (UDO) or in the Comprehensive Plan, or portion thereof, adopted by the Board of County Commissioners. A cemetery is widely understood to be harmonious with rural residential character, and the 40- year presence of the existing cemetery has become an inherent element of its rural Orange County neighborhood. As such, the measured and responsible addition of new grave sites as proposed in this application will remain consistent with that existing character. The allowance of a cemetery as a permitted use in Orange County's Rural Buffer (RB) zoning district, subject to the protection provided by Special Use Permit review, is inherent evidence that this use complies with the County's plans for physical development. 1