Zoning text amendment items in Orange County, between 13 Oct 2025 and 13 Oct 2026
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| Subject | Items |
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| Zoning text amendment | 18 |
| Subdivision and site plans | 8 |
| Environment and sustainability | 6 |
| Stormwater and flooding | 5 |
| Rezoning | 4 |
| Comprehensive plan | 3 |
| Housing and affordability | 3 |
| Water and sewer | 3 |
| Land conversion and large development | 2 |
| Roads and transportation | 2 |
| Schools and education | 2 |
| Broadband and technology | 1 |
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Continued review of planning director-initiated amendments to the Unified Development Ordinance covering several topic areas, described as primarily housekeeping. Carried over from the 1 July and 12 August meetings.Discussion item Zoning text amendment
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Planning director-initiated amendments to several sections of the Unified Development Ordinance, which staff say are required by changes in state law. The board makes a recommendation to the county commissioners.
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A public hearing on amending the Unified Development Ordinance's subdivision administration provisions.
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Continued review of planning director-initiated amendments across several topic areas, primarily housekeeping. Held over from 1 July and carried again to 2 September.Discussion item Zoning text amendment
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Planning director-initiated amendments to the Unified Development Ordinance across several areas, described as primarily housekeeping. Tabled from 3 June for lack of time.Partly reviewed — frontage and setbacks, accessory dwelling unit square footage, minor home occupation permits, street trees and subdivision buffers. RV standards and school zoning were reached but n…
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85 pages of planning director-initiated amendments, including revisions to the table of permitted uses covering agricultural and rural uses such as farm supply stores, feed mills, commercial stables and livestock markets. Carried forward to 1 July, 12 August and 2 September.Tabled to the July 1 committee meeting for lack of time
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Staff-led training for recently appointed members on the basics of land use regulation in the county.
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Staff-led training for recently appointed members on the basics of land use regulation in Orange County.
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Amendments to subdivision review processes and classifications, twice through the ordinance review committee before reaching the board. A friendly amendment extending neighbourhood information meeting notification from 14 days to 30, applied uniformly to every type of notification, carried 5-4 on a show of hands.Approved unanimously
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Planning director-initiated amendments to the subdivision review processes and classifications in the development ordinance. The package moves by-right subdivisions of fewer than 21 lots to administrative staff review, ending planning board and commissioner review of them, and reworks the concept plan, expedited subdi…Notification amendment passed 5-4; the amended package recommended 8-1
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Planning director-initiated amendments to the subdivision review processes and classifications in the development ordinance, presented to the committee for the first time. The package moves by-right subdivisions creating fewer than 21 lots to administrative staff review, drops the separate concept plan application exc…
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Thirteen items approved together: five sets of minutes; motor vehicle and property tax releases for eighteen taxpayers; sixteen late exemption applications; a March 25 tax lien advertisement date; the 2026 listing period extended to February 13; budget amendment #6; ordinance execution for the impervious surface, wate…Approved unanimously
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Planning director-initiated amendments to the unified development ordinance, covering error corrections, recent state law changes, internal inconsistencies and school needs.
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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
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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.
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Planning director-initiated amendments to simplify impervious surface limits and existing development definitions across the county's thirteen watershed protection overlay districts, delete the obsolete sliding scale table, and refine minimum reservoir buffer widths in the Upper Eno critical watershed overlay to accom…Approved unanimously
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Consultants presented a year's work on a multimodal plan for unincorporated Orange County, built on three goals: safer walking and biking, a more connected network, and better access. About 600 residents were reached across nine engagement channels, reporting infrastructure that is limited and disconnected and concern…
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The text amendments were continued to the November 18 business meeting.Continued to November 18
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