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j� <br />I <br />2 <br />Development Process, Schedule, and Action <br />• Public hearing held on November 23,.1998 (minutes are attached beginning on page 27). <br />® First Action: Planning Board, on September 1, 1999, voted four (4) to two (2) .to approve the <br />proposed amendments to decrease the maximum density in the watershed and not to approve. <br />the amendments allowing flexible development within the watershed (at an overall density of <br />1du /2 acres with 50% open space). Minutes of the September 1, 1999, Planning "Board meeting are <br />attached (beginning on page 34). The attached August 26, 1999, memorandum to . the Planning <br />Board (pages 43 - 45) gives additional information for which the Planning Board had asked for in an <br />earlier meeting: <br />® Final Action: Board of County Commissioners to consider proposed amendments.." <br />New evidence which was not presented in writing to the Planning Board may not be considered by the <br />Board of Commissioners in making a decision unless the joint public hearing is reopened to receive <br />said evidence, and the .item is readvertised and /or referred back to the . Planning Board for <br />recommendation. <br />FINANCIAL IMPACT: Not applicable: <br />RECOMMENDATION(S): <br />Planning Board Recommendation: eApprove density of 1 dwelling unit per five acres with lots of <br />record allowed not more than five lots as small as two (2) acres. <br />eDo not approve Flexible Development allowing an overall <br />density of 1 du /2 ac. <br />Administration Recommendation: <br />Approve amendments per the attached Administration <br />Recommendation beginning on page 3. (Proposed amendments to <br />the Orange County Zoning Ordinance begin on page 5; proposed <br />amendments to the Orange County Subdivision Regulations begin on <br />page 12.) <br />® Maximum density: 2/6 OPTION: 1 du / five acres; Lots of record existing on date of adoption may <br />contain up to, but no more than, five lots as small as two acres in size. <br />AND <br />FLEX OPTION: Overall density of 1 du / 3 acres (minimum lot size of 1.5 <br />acres) allowed in subdivisions developed .using flexible development <br />provisions provided 50% of total area is reserved as open space. <br />® 50% open space requirement in flexible development subdivisions within the Cane Creek <br />watershed. <br />An Ordinance Amending the Orange County Zoning Ordinance is attached on pages 16 -23. An Ordinance. <br />Amending the Orange County Subdivision Regulations is attached on pages 24 -26. <br />g:\ bctamend \canecrk%occabs.doc \10 -6 -99W <br />