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5 <br /> Planning Staff Report for August 29, 2002 <br /> Board of County Commissioners Work Session <br /> Growth Control Issues <br /> ISSUE 1: Identify the details of a proposed moratoria including: size and scale of a large <br /> residential project. <br /> RESPONSE: August 7a', 2002,the Planning Board agreed to define large development <br /> as any subdivision with 20 or more lots. <br /> ISSUE 2: Determine what"pipeline"proposals would be affected. <br /> RESPONSE: The Planning Board discussed three"pipeline"options at which to stop an <br /> existing project: <br /> 1.)A subdivision that has been submitted to staff; <br /> 2.)The project's concept plan has been approved by the Planning Board; <br /> 3.)A project that has been issued a formal preliminary approval by the BOCC. <br /> ISSUE 3: List the steps necessary to produce/implement a limited growth moratorium or <br /> other growth control <br /> RESPONSE: 1. Report to the Orange County Board of County Commissioners of June <br /> 18, 2002, in response to the Orange County Planning Board"Growth Control Letter of <br /> May 6,2002. A moratorium could be enacted in the following time frame. The length of <br /> the moratorium would be coordinated with the completion of a unified development <br /> ordinance which would create a special use process for major subdivisions. The Planning <br /> Board has asked for additional time to process subdivision applications. The <br /> comprehensive plan land use element, adequate public facilities ordinance, and ordinance <br /> revisions regarding water resource issues would be concurrently researched and <br /> implemented to some degree. <br /> The shortest regular timeframe for the enactment of a moratorium would be as follows: <br /> Request for Legal Ad November 6,2002 <br /> Quarterly Public Hearing November 25,2002 <br /> Planning Board Action December 4, 2002 <br /> BOCC Action December 10,2002 <br /> A shorter timeframe if requested could be accomplished by creating a special public <br /> hearing at a regular BOCC date. <br /> RESPONSE: 2. Unified Development Ordinance Definition <br /> A Unified Development Ordinance(UDO)is a combined land development code that <br /> integrates the present planning regulatory system of"free standing"codes of subdivision, zoning, <br /> environmental impacts, erosion control, flood management and economic development. <br /> The Unified Development Ordinance creates a comprehensive and cross-referenced <br /> document, combines various land use controls in a different procedural context. For example, <br />