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1 <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA .ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: October 13 , 1999 <br />Actiort Agenda <br />Item No <br />SUBJECT: TEXT AMENDMENTS: FLEXIBLE DEVELOPMENT PROVISIONS <br />DEPARTMENTS Planning and Inspections PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): - INFORMATION CONTACT:. <br />1) .Administration Recommendation Karen Lincoln, Extension 2583 <br />2) Planning,.Board Recommendation Craig Benedict, Extension 2592 <br />3) 5-24-99 Public Hearing Notice TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />4) 8-23-99 Public Hearing Notice Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />5) 5-24-99 Draft Public Hearing Minutes Chapel Hill , 968-4501 <br />6) July 13, 1999, Planning.Board Minutes.; Durham 688-7331 <br />7) Ordinance Amending Subdivision Regulations Mebane (336)227-2031- <br />8) Ordinance Amending Zoning Ordinance <br />PURPOSE: To consider proposed text amendments to the Orange County Subdivision Regulations <br />provisions .for flexible development and companion amendments to the Orange County Zoning <br />Ordinance. <br />BACKGROUND: <br />Request Amendments to the Orange County- Subdivision Regulations, Section II (Definitions), <br />Section 11-D-3 (Preliminary Plat Approval), and Section IV-B-10 (Flexible Development) propose <br />changes. to delete undesirable aspects. of the conservation approach, to enhance preservation of rural <br />character in flexible development subdivisions, and to provide incentives for :using the estate lot <br />approach..- Proposed amendments to the Orange County Zoning Ordinance define "flexible <br />development" and. "open space" in a .manner. that is consistent with existing and proposed. provisions. <br />of the subdivision regulations <br />Location The amendments, if adopted, will apply to the entirety. of Orange County lying. outside of <br />the Rural Buffer and outside the. municipalitiesand their:extra-territorial jurisdictions, if any.: <br />Existing and Proposed Conditions <br />Existing: • Flexible developmenf conservation: option subdivisions have not demonstrated <br />creativity in design to preserve open space as intended by the flexible. development provisions <br />and do not reserve/protect-any:.natural areas that-would riot be protected by other existing provisions: <br />in the zoning ordinance-and subdivision regulations. <br />Thedefinition of "Flexible.development".includes #our approaches to preserving open space. <br />in flexible- development subdivisions: an "estate" lot approach; a "conservation" approach; a <br />"cluster" approach; and a "village" or modifed cluster approach. <br />• "Open space" in the zoning ordinance is defined with .respect to calculating land use <br />intensity ratios for zoning applications and does not include a definition that compliments required <br />