Zoning text amendment items in Orange County
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| Subject | Items |
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| Zoning text amendment | 36 |
| Environment and sustainability | 13 |
| Subdivision and site plans | 11 |
| Comprehensive plan | 9 |
| Stormwater and flooding | 9 |
| Housing and affordability | 7 |
| Rezoning | 7 |
| Water and sewer | 7 |
| Broadband and technology | 5 |
| Land conversion and large development | 5 |
| Farmland and open space | 3 |
| Health and human services | 3 |
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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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8 UDO Text Amendment - Impervious Surfaces, Watershed Protection Overlay Districts, and Stream BuffersThe board decides whether to recommend Planning Director-initiated amendments to the Unified Development Ordinance covering impervious surfaces, watershed protection overlay districts and stream buffers. The changes respond largely to the state's 2024 Regulatory Reform Act and adjust reservoir setbacks around Lake Ora…Recommended for approval to the Board of Commissioners, unanimous
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8 UDO Text Amendment - Impervious Surfaces, Watershed Protection Overlay Districts, and Stream BuffersA director-initiated text amendment would update the county's development ordinance on impervious surfaces, watershed protection overlay districts, and stream buffers. The Board of County Commissioners has a hearing on it anticipated for October 7.Postponed unanimously to the October 1, 2025 meeting
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2 UDO Text Amendment - Impervious Surfaces, Watershed Protection Overlay Districts, and Stream BuffersCounty Engineer Christopher Sandt presented proposed amendments to impervious surface, watershed protection overlay, and stream buffer standards, including a setback change limited to Lake Orange and a sliding-scale impervious surface approach discussed in relation to affordable housing and density.
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Planning Director Cy Stober presented proposed amendments to subdivision review processes and classifications; the board discussed the necessity and history of required neighborhood information meetings and site visits.
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The first update to the county's telecommunications standards since the Unified Development Ordinance was adopted on 5 April 2011. It rewrites the table of permitted uses, the telecommunications standards and the definitions, and creates a new section on nonconforming wireless facilities, with the aim of protecting re…Approved unanimously
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The first update to the county's solar array standards since November 2012, written with the sustainability office. It carries out a Climate Action Plan strategy calling for expedited permitting of all new solar projects countywide, and follows the county's SolSmart designation.Approved unanimously
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A citywide comprehensive plan update is under way, aimed at strengthening transit language and aligning land use with transport goals through transit-supportive policy, mixed use and higher-density corridors. A development ordinance overhaul is expected to follow and implement it.
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A new development ordinance is being drafted following the town's recent comprehensive plan, to modernise zoning and support walkable, bikeable, transit-ready neighbourhoods. The safe routes to schools plan is being updated with lessons from the pandemic, infrastructure gaps, multi-modal safety education and coordinat…
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Repeals UDO Section 5.10 in whole and replaces it, with revisions to the table of permitted uses in Section 5.2 and the Article 10 definitions. The existing rules date from 2011 and no longer match federal or state law. Staff aim to allow lower-impact towers, shorten approvals, and address coverage gaps in the north o…Recommended to the commissioners 7-3, with a one-word amendment to section 5.10.1(A)(1)
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Rewrites UDO Section 5.9.6 and the related definitions for roof- and ground-mounted solar arrays used as an accessory use. Public utility solar, the large arrays once called solar farms, is not touched. The standards have not been updated since November 2012.Recommended unanimously, with staff given leeway on one line of the use table
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A first review of the planning director's rewrite. A member asked that the survey of county-owned buildings be supplied and considered in the amendments.
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A first review of the residential solar standards. Members asked whether agricultural uses had been considered and for clarification on fencing and screening requirements.
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A 150-dwelling master plan development on 90.133 acres off Morrow Mill Road at Gold Mine Loop, at 1.1 units per acre with nearly 70 percent open space, aimed at older residents. It required rezoning from agricultural residential, a comprehensive plan amendment expanding the rural neighbourhood activity node from 18.49…Denied unanimously, with a statement of inconsistencyPublic hearing Comprehensive planHousing and affordabilityLand conversion and large developmentParks and recreationRezoningWater and sewerZoning text amendment
- Pin 9739-72-0339 · Hands Four Development Cooperative
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Changes to Section 5.2 and Article 10 on family care facilities, taken separately from the applicant's amendments.Approved unanimously
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A first review of subdivision amendments initiated by the commissioners and planning director, timed to coincide with expected changes to the comprehensive plan. Members discussed enforcing agricultural requirements against the bona fide farm exemption, incentives for conservation subdivisions beyond density bonuses,…
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Applications to amend the zoning atlas, the comprehensive plan and the development ordinance text to allow Fiddlehead Corner, a 150-dwelling master plan development on about 90.133 acres off Morrow Mill Road at Gold Mine Loop in Bingham Township. The plan mixes apartments, townhouses and houses with a community center…Hearing continued to 6 March, unanimously; 33 speakersPublic hearing Comprehensive planHousing and affordabilityRezoningWater and sewerZoning text amendment
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The annual report to commissioners, filed each December and taken up at a spring work session. The 2024 list covers rezoning applications, UDO text amendments, major subdivision concept plans and preliminary plats, briefings on the land use plan and the climate action plan, and a work session on public notification re…Approved unanimously as amended
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The board held a public hearing, took no public comment, and approved county-initiated amendments to the UDO's landscaping, buffer and tree protection standards, with two added wording changes.Approved unanimously
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