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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS A public hearing will be held in the Judge F. Gordon Battle Superior Courtroom of the New Orange County Courthouse, 106 E. Margaret Lane, Hillsborough, North Carolina, on Monday, August 25, 2003, at 7:30 PM for the purpose of giving all interested citizens an opportunity to speak for or against the following items: A. ORANGE COUNTY ZONING ORDINANCE 1. Amend Article 8 to create a special use permit process that sets special use standards and locational criteria for subdivision size (number of lots) based on zoning district. Proposed major subdivisions in the Agricultural Residential (AR), Rural Residential (R1) outside 10-20 Year Comprehensive Plan Transition Areas, and Rural Buffer (RB) zoning districts would be processed as follows: • 6 -12 lots, approval by the Planning Board; • 13 - 20 lots, approval by the Board of County Commissioners with a special use permit; and • 21 or more lots, approval as a planned development zoning amendment by the Board of County Commissioners. Proposed major subdivisions in the R1 zoning district inside 10-20 Year Comprehensive Plan Transition Areas would be processed as follows: • 6 - 20 lots, approval by the Planning Board; • 21 - 79 lots approval by the Board of County Commissioners with a special use permit; and • 80 or more lots, approval as a planned development zoning amendment by the Board of County Commissioners. Purpose: To more effectively mitigate the impacts of large residential developments occurring in the County's planning jurisdiction through a combination of locational and threshold criteria designed to encourage major subdivisions near areas with urban infrastructure potential. 2. Zoning ordinance text amendments to Article 6.29.3 of the Orange County Zoning Ordinance (Economic Development Districts Design Manual). Amend the Permitted Use Table and development area description to: a. Scrivener's change, "Class A Special Use" to "Class B Special Use" when referring to special uses approved by the Board of Adjustment; b. Add "School, elementary, middle, and high" to the I-85/Buckhorn Road column as a use permitted within the existing Primary Development Area with the approval of a planned development (PD) and Class A special use permit anal describe change within development area text.