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10 <br /> Slide#15 <br /> HOUSING IN ORANGE COUNTY <br /> Restrictive zoning, particularly in the <br /> form of large-lot, single-family-only <br /> zoning, is associated with: <br /> • Less construction <br /> What's wrong 0 Higher housing costs <br /> with current <br /> • Higher economic and racial <br /> zoning policy? segregation <br /> • Higher automobile dependence <br /> R B A N - I N i T l T U T L 1S <br /> Slide #16 <br /> HOUSING IN ORANGE COUNTY <br /> Compared to Much of the Rest of the Triangle, <br /> Orange County is Zoned for Fewer Apartments <br /> Neighborhoods where <br /> 0 multifamily apartments can <br /> be built by right �- - - <br /> o, m <br /> Outside of Carrboro, Chapel Hill, =' , <br /> and Hillsborough, very little land <br /> is zoned to enable multifamily <br /> Cary 'FAL�tGH�� <br /> housing, minimum lot sizes are n <br /> high, and all housing must be <br /> associated with off-street 'g <br /> parking. <br /> s.A N I N s T I T U T [ Source:National Zoning Atlas. <br /> Commissioner McKee said that water and sewer affects where apartments can be built. <br /> Yonah Freemark said that there's been a policy connection between the provision of water <br /> and sewer and zoning policy. <br /> Chair Hamilton said the costs of water and sewer and who pays is also a question. <br />