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Rezoning items in Orange County, between 13 Oct 2025 and 13 Oct 2026

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Rezoning17
Housing and affordability8
Subdivision and site plans7
Comprehensive plan6
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  1. Tue, Sep 15 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    Thomas and Hutton, for Holy Trinity Anglican Church, asks to rezone the site off Old Lystra Road at the end of Wave Road from Residential-Low Density-1 to Residential-4 Conditional Zoning District. The plan is a place of worship up to 50 feet tall and up to ten single-family homes up to 35 feet. Part of the site is in…
  2. Tue, Sep 15 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    Holy Trinity Anglican Church asks to rezone about 15.5 acres from R-LD1 to R-4 conditional zoning for a 300-seat church, a later addition, and up to ten church-owned tiny homes for people in need. The county planning board recommended approval unanimously with a cut-through traffic condition; the rezoning needs Chapel…
  3. Wed, Aug 12 Orange County · Planning Board
    20.51 acres from agricultural residential to a non-residential conditional district, applied for by the Orange County ABC Board so it can build a store. The site is previously disturbed land that held a nursery and landscaping store, sits at a heavily trafficked intersection the ordinance treats as an industrial node,…
  4. Wed, Jun 3 Orange County · Planning Board
    An applicant-initiated rezoning of about 15.5 acres at 1651 Old Lystra Road from Residential-Low Density-1 to Residential-4 Conditional Zoning District. The parcel lies in Chapel Hill's transition area under the county's joint planning land use plan with Chapel Hill and Carrboro, so the town's ordinance governs the di…
    Recommended for approval with an added condition, unanimously.
  5. Wed, Jun 3 Orange County · Planning Board
    Staff-led training for recently appointed members on the basics of land use regulation in the county.
  6. Mon, May 18 Orange County · Tax Assessment Work Group
    An executive search firm gathering what the next tax administrator will face, for the recruitment brochure, interview questions and a finalist skills assessment. The group named rebuilding trust after the revaluation, consistency and accountability in the office, readiness for scrutiny at the next cycle, workload from…
  7. Wed, May 6 Orange County · Planning Board
    43 lots on about 61.11 acres at 3531 NC Highway 54 West in Bingham Township, with 35.24 acres - 57.66 percent - dedicated open space. The plat is consistent with the concept plan the county commissioners approved on 7 October 2025 as the site-specific plan for a residential conditional district rezoning.
  8. Wed, May 6 Orange County · Planning Board
    Staff-led training for recently appointed members on the basics of land use regulation in Orange County.
  9. Wed, May 6 Orange County · Planning Board
    The preliminary plat for Rigsbee Estates, a 43-lot major subdivision on about 61.11 acres at 3531 NC Highway 54 West in Bingham Township. It sets aside 35.24 acres, 57.66 percent of the site, as dedicated open space. The plat matches the concept plan the county commissioners approved on October 7, 2025 as the site-spe…
    Recommended for approval unanimously
  10. Tue, Apr 7 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    A county-initiated amendment moving the boundary between the Jordan Lake unprotected watershed overlay district and the University Lake protected watershed overlay district across one unaddressed parcel of about 19.4 acres in Bingham Township. Protected watersheds are both part of the county's delegated stormwater man…
    Statement of consistency and amendment approved unanimously
  11. Wed, Feb 4 Orange County · Planning Board
    A county-initiated amendment moving the boundary between the Jordan Lake unprotected watershed overlay district and the University Lake protected watershed overlay district across one unaddressed parcel of about 19.4 acres off Dodson's Crossroads at Arden Estate Court, a newly established private road, in Bingham Town…
    Recommended to the county commissioners unanimously; adopted by them on April 7
  12. Tue, Jan 13 Orange County · Board of Equalization & Review
    Twenty-one appeals were heard: seven from individual homeowners in the morning, 14 from companies owning apartment complexes and commercial buildings in the afternoon. The board reduced seven assessments, held ten unchanged, increased one, continued two and denied one as untimely. The docket was dominated by large Cha…
    Seven reduced, ten unchanged, one increased, two continued, one denied as untimely
  13. Dec 9, 2025 Orange County · Affordable Housing Advisory Board
    The board drew up questions for a meeting with county planning staff: expedited affordable housing permits, the tension between the rural buffer and rural parts of the county, whether duplexes and triplexes are realistically buildable, planning's role in the affordable housing portion of the Greene Tract, how growth i…
  14. Dec 3, 2025 Orange County · Planning Board
    The board's 2025 record and 2026 plan, due to the clerk by January 16 and presented to the county commissioners in February or March. Work in 2025 included five conditional district rezoning reviews, three text amendment recommendations, one major subdivision preliminary plat, and briefings on the land use plan and ha…
    Approved unanimously as amended
  15. Nov 20, 2025 Orange County · Housing Authority Board
    A member raised pending zoning changes that would reduce the required share of affordable units in a new development from 50 percent to 10 percent, warning that because developers may make a payment in lieu, a 10 percent requirement would likely mean payments rather than units.
  16. Nov 18, 2025 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    A conditional rezoning of about 78.11 acres for a 49-lot conservation cluster subdivision of single-family houses, filed by Forestar Group. The planning board had reviewed it on September 3 and October 1. Commissioners objected that 49 houses on 20,000-square-foot lots without water and sewer is urban-style density in…
    Denied 6-1 as not in the public interest
  17. Nov 6, 2025 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    The conditional rezoning of about 78 acres for a 49-lot conservation cluster subdivision, continued to the November 18 business meeting because of the late hour, with no further public comment to be taken.
    Continued to November 18

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