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` . ADMINISTRATION RECOMMENDATION 13 <br />Proposed Amendments <br />ORANGE COUNTY SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS <br />Section IV -B -10. FLEXIBLE DEVELOPMENT <br />Section A PURPOSE - <br />Section.B APPLICABILITY <br />Section C 'OPEN SPACE STANDARDS <br />CA Minimum Required Open Space <br />Where a developer, elects to seek approval of a Flexible Development as specified herein, <br />at least thirty -three percent. (33 %) of the total land area in the Flexible .Development must <br />be .set aside as protected .open space except in the Cane Creek Watershed where at <br />least 50% of the total land area must be set aside as protected open space. -,Such <br />open space.shall meet these.standards unless the developer chooses to seek approval of . <br />a conventional. subdivision as specified herein <br />C.2 Types of Open Space <br />C.3 Ownership of Open Space <br />C.4 Maintenance of Open Space <br />Section D DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS <br />DA Estate Lot Option <br />D.2 Conservation Option <br />D.3 Cluster Option <br />D.4 Village Option <br />Villages represent a modified form of cluster. development intended to serve as physical, <br />social, and economic focal points in rural portions of the 'county. Consequently, villages <br />are appropriate locations for civic uses, such as'schools and churches, as well as avariety <br />of economic functions, including stores and workshops, and residential building .types <br />designed -to accommodate a range of socio - economic groups... <br />® The village conservancy is a continuous open space area surrounding the village <br />proper, representing the land from which dwellings have been transferred. to the <br />village proper. In lieu of a continuous open space area, a village conservancy may <br />consist of open space and estate lots, provided all estate lots meet the standards of <br />Section D.1. . <br />0 Open space within the village conservancy shall consist of designated Primary <br />and /or Secondary Conservation Areas. <br />g: \txtamend \canecrk\sramend.doc \10- 8 -99Ud <br />