HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD-2015-011 Ordinance Amending the Orange County Comprehensive Plan and Unified Development OrdinanceOrdinance #: ORD -201 5 -011
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AN ORDINANCE AMENDING
THE ORANGE COUNTY COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AND UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT
ORDINANCE
WHEREAS, Orange County initiated amendments to the Orange County Comprehensive Plan
and Unified Development Ordinance, as established in Sections 1.1 and 1.7 of the Orange
County Unified Development Ordinance (UDO), in order to allow for appropriate low- intensity
agricultural support enterprise uses within the Rural Buffer land use classification, and
WHEREAS, the Board finds that the text amendment to the Comprehensive Plan is necessary
to promote implementation of the Comprehensive Plan, and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Sections 1.1.5 and 1.1.7 of the UDO and to Section 153A -341 of the
North Carolina General Statutes, the Board finds that the amendments will carry out the intent
and purpose of the adopted Agricultural Development and Farmland Protection Plan (2009)
and is internally consistent with the 2030 Comprehensive Plan or part thereof including, but not
limited to, the following:
Planning Principle #5: Preservation of Rural Land Use Pattern
Planning Principle #8: Preservation of Community Character
Natural and Cultural Systems Goal 2: Economic viability of agriculture, forestry, and
horticulture and their respective lands.
Natural and Cultural Systems Goal 3: Infrastructure and support systems for local and
regional agriculture.
Objective AG -3: Develop programs and associated infrastructure facilities to make local
farms more economically viable, including local farm product processing, development
of a distribution center, and marketing initiatives.
and
WHEREAS, the requirements of Sections 2.3 and 2.8 of the Unified Development Ordinance
(UDO) have been deemed complete, and
WHEREAS, the Board has found the proposed amendments to be reasonably necessary to
promote the public health, safety, and general welfare.
BE IT ORDAINED by the Board of Commissioners of Orange County that the Orange County
Comprehensive Plan and Unified Development Ordinance are hereby amended as shown on
the attached pages.
BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED THAT this ordinance be placed in the book of published
ordinances and that this ordinance is effective upon its adoption.
Upon motion of C mmiissioner seconded by
Commissioner (/lam Wforegoing ordinance was adopted this
day of , 2015.
I, Donna S. Baker, Clerk to the Board of Commissioners for Orange County, DO
HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing is a true copy of so much of the proceedings of said
Board at a meeting held on , 2015 as relates in any way to the
adoption of the foregoing and that said proceedings are recorded in the minutes of the said
Board.
WITNESS my hand and the seal of said County, this day of ,
2015.
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Clerk to the Board of Commissioners