Agenda - 03-06-2025; 5-a - Continuation of Public Hearing – Applications for Zoning Atlas Amendment, Comprehensive Plan Amendments, & UDO Text Amendments to Realize “Fiddlehead Corner”, a Master Plan Development

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7 The MPD-CD zoning district was originally established to provide a mechanism through which innovative development proposals could move forward for consideration by Orange County through a legislative land use planning process that was transparent, fair, open, efficient, and responsive. The intent of the MPD-CD zoning district is, in part, "...to provide opportunity for unified large-scale subdivisions, non-residential, and mixed-use developments to be considered." Allowance of the MPD-CD zoning district use more broadly throughout the County may help accomplish the Comprehensive Plan's vision for activity nodes, inviting innovative mixtures of uses, including differing forms of residential uses and creative designs, at key intersections throughout the County. Any proposal of MPD-CD zoning in the RNANs would require administration of a zoning application and be accompanied by the requisite public notification and public hearing for input from property owners in the surrounding area. Fiddlehead Corner, the applicant's zoning proposal, is following this process and offers a procedural template that future applicants might use for reference and guidance. SECTION C: UDO TEXT AMENDMENTS Hands Four Development Cooperative submitted an application in December 2023, and modified in March 2024, to amend the text of the UDO's Table of Permitted Uses to add "Family Care Facility" as a permitted use in the MPD-CD zoning district (Attachment Cl) and to complement the proposed amendments to Appendix F of the 2030 Comprehensive Plan. While this applicant-initiated text amendment is necessary for the MPD-CD rezoning application, as presented, staff must evaluate if "Family Care Home" is an appropriate use for consideration within the MPD-CD zoning district countywide. Applications for a conditional zoning district must include all uses contemplated within a development project as part of the conditions accompanying the rezoning approval. The proposed allowable uses are specified in the UDO's Section 5.2, the Table of Permitted Uses, including whether use-specific standards are required. Furthermore, a MPD-CD approval must "... be located in such a manner as to be compatible with the character of existing development of surrounding properties, thus ensuring the continued conservation of building values and encouraging the most appropriate use of land in the county. Therefore, when evaluating an application for this district, emphasis shall be _given to the location of the proposed development, the relationship of the site and site development plan to adjoining property, and the development itself (emphasis by staff). Additionally, the applicant is proposing a UDO text amendment to allow MPD-CD districts in RNANs, as defined in the 2030 Comprehensive Plan. This amendment is complementary to the application to amend the Comprehensive Plan's Appendix F. The following sentence in Section 3.8, MPD-CD Chart, District Specific Development Standards, #1 would be rewritten as follows (red text is the proposed amendment language): 1 . MPD-CD districts shall be limited to Transition Land Use Categories within the Orange County Planning Jurisdiction and Rural Neighborhood Activity Nodes and Rural Community Nodes, as defined in the Orange County Comprehensive Plan.