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50 <br />6. Reduce the number of estate lots allowed on a private road; and <br />7. Provide for Planning Board approval of the estate approach. <br />The proposed changes will necessitate amendments to Section II, Definitions and Section III-D- <br />3, Preliminary Ptat Approval. <br />Deve{oament Process. Schedule, and Action <br />• Public Hearing May 24,1999: Major comments were that flexible development would not be <br />used if those options did not offer some incentive to the developer Draft minutes are <br />attached. <br />• First Action: Planning Board to consider amendments: <br />Option 1. Action to recommend approval of the proposed amendments. <br />Option: 2. Action to recommend denial of the proposed amendments. <br />Option: 3. Action to recommend changes to the proposed amendments that is not <br />significant in nature. <br />Recommendations to be returned to the Board of Commissioners no sooner than <br />August 17,1999. <br />FINANCIAL IMPACT: Not applicable <br />RECOMMENDATION: <br />Staff Recommendation: Planning Board to recommend approval of the proposed <br />amendments to Section II, Definitions, Section III-D-3, Preliminary Plat Approval, and to Section IV- <br />B-10, Flexible Development, of the Orange County Subdivision Regulations. <br />b. Zoning Ordinance Tezt Amendments <br />(1) DeSnitions Regarding Flexible Development <br />PURPOSE: To consider proposed text amendments to Article 22, Definitions, of the Orange <br />County Zoning Ordinance. These changes to the zoning ordinance are proposed as companion <br />amendments with proposed amendments to subdivision regulations. <br />BACKGROUND: <br />Reauestt Amendments propose changes to the zoning ordinance to define "flexible <br />development" and °open space' in a manner that is consistent with existing and proposed <br />provisions of the subdivision regulations. Proposed amendments to the subdivision regulations <br />(initiated by the Planning Board Ordinance Review Committee in December, 1998, to address <br />issues regarding flexible development) necessitate the amendments to the zoning ordinance. <br />Location: The amendments, if adopted, will apply to the entirety of Orange County lying <br />outside of the Rural Buffer and outside the municipalities and their extra-territorial jurisdictions, if <br />any. <br />Existins~ and Proposed Conditions <br />Existing: • "Flexible development" is defined according to the definition of flexible <br />development in the subdivision regulations. The definition includes four <br />approaches to preserving open space in flexible development subdivisions: <br />