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Article 2: Procedure? Section 2.3: Comprehensive Plan Amendments 2.3.4 Public Hearing Required A public hearing shall be held before adoption of any proposed Comprehensive Plan amendment. The Board of County Commissioners shall hear applications and receive public comment for proposed Comprehensive Plan amendments in a Public Hearing. 2.3.5 Notice Requirements for Planning Board Meetings and Public Hearings (A) The Planning Director shall provide notice of Planning Board meetings at which the Planning Board is to review and make a recommendation on Future Land Use Map amendments and Public Hearings at which an amendment to the Future Land Use Map is to be reviewed. Notifications of proposed Future Land Use Map amendments shall occur as follows: (1) Notice of the Planning Board meeting and public hearing shall be posted on the affected parcel or on an adjacent public right of way a minimum of ten days, but not more than 25 days, prior to the Planning Board meeting or public hearing. Said notice shall contain the time and location off the Planning Board meeting and public hearing, whichever is relevant to the posted notice. (a) When multiple parcels are affected, a posting on each individual parcel is not required, but sufficient notices shall be posted to provide reasonable notice to interested persons. (2) Written notice of the Planning Board meeting and public hearing shall be sent by first-class mail to all property owners, as listed in the Orange County tax records, or tax records of adjoining counties, whose property is affected or within one thousand feet of the affected parcel(s). Said notice shall be mailed at least ten days, but not more than 25 days, prior to the date of the Planning Board meeting and shall include the times and locations of beth the Planning Board meeting and or public hearing, whichever is relevant to the notice. The outside of the envelope or postcard shall be marked either"Notice of Planning Board Meeting' or"Notice of Public Hearing.-", whichever is relevant to the notice. (a) Alternative option to mailed notice for large-scale Future Land Use Map amendments shall be as follows: The first class mail notice required by subsection (2)shall not be required if a Future Land Use Map amendment proposes to change the land use classification of more than 50 properties, owned by at least 50 different property owners, and Orange County elects to use the expanded public notice described as follows: (i) An advertisement published as described in (C) below, provided that the advertisement is not less than one-half of a newspaper page in size. (ii) The advertisement shall be effective only for property owners who reside in the area of general circulation of the newspaper that publishes the notice. Property owners that reside outside of the newspaper circulation area, according to the address listed on the most recent property tax listing for the affected property, shall be notified according to the provisions of subsection (2). (B) The Planning Director shall provide public notice for any Comprehensive Plan amendment to be heard at a Public Hearing. The notice shall include the time and location of the public hearing. (C) For all proposed amendments, notice of the public hearing shall be given by publishing said notice at least twice in a newspaper of general circulation in the County, stating the time and place of such hearing and the substance of the proposed amendment. Orange County, North Carolina—Unified Development Ordinance Page 2-5