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Draft completed by Staff 6/04/03 <br />Revised 6/25/03 <br />AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE ORANGE COUNTY ZONING <br />ORDINANCE TO REQUIRE THAT THE ADEQUACY OF PUBLIC SCHOOL <br />FACILITIES TO ACCOMMODATE NEW DEVELOPMENT BE CONSIDERED <br />IN THE APPROVAL PROCESS <br />WHEREAS, the portion of Orange County served by the Chapel Hill-Carrboro <br />City school system and the Orange County school system, have for the past decade been <br />experiencing rapid growth in population; and <br />WHEREAS, this rapid growth, and that which is anticipated, creates a demand for <br />additional school facilities to accommodate the children who reside within new <br />developments; and <br />WHEREAS, the responsibility for planning for and constructing new school <br />facilities lies primarily with the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Board of Education and the <br />Orange County Board of Education, with funding provided by Orange County; and <br />WHEREAS, Carrboro, Chapel Hill, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Board of <br />Education and Orange County on the one hand and Hillsborough, the Orange County <br />Board of Education and Orange County on the other hand have recognized the need to <br />work together to ensure that new growth within the School Districts occurs at a pace that <br />allows Orange County and the School Districts to provide adequate school facilities to <br />serve the children within such new developments; and <br />WHEREAS, to implement the Memoranda of Understanding among Carrboro, <br />Chapel Hill, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Board of Education and Orange County and <br />among Hillsborough, the Orange County Board of Education and Orange County, the <br />Board of Commissioners of Orange County desires to provide a mechanism to assure <br />that, to the extent possible, new development will take place only when there are <br />adequate public school facilities available, or planned, which will accommodate such <br />new development; <br />NOW THEREFORE, THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF <br />ORANGE COUNTY ORDAINS: <br />Section 1. The Orange County Zoning Ordinance is amended by creating a <br />new Article 15 to read as follows: <br />ARTICLE 15 [ARTICLE XV in the TABLE OF CONTENTS and in the DETAILED <br />TABLE OF CONTENTS]. SCHOOL ADEQUATE PUBLIC FACILITIES <br />15.1.1 Purpose <br />The purpose of this Article is to ensure that, to the maximum extent practical, <br />approval of new residential development will become effective only when it can <br />reasonably be expected that adequate public school facilities will be available to <br />accommodate such new development. <br />\\COLEMANPDCISHARED\Lisa\orangecounty\DraftSAPFO-ZO-Amendment rev by GEG 62403.doc <br />