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Planning Commission proposes five new zoning districts; board raises questions and requests boardwide feedback
Summary
Planning Commission chairman Mister Capel presented draft proposals for five zoning districts — A1, A2, Rural Residential, Rural Service and Technology — plus optional overlay districts, and the Board asked for written comments and more detail before mapping or adoption.
Planning Commission chairman Mister Capel presented the commission’s draft zoning-district concepts at the Orange County Board of Supervisors work session, describing five proposed base districts and optional overlay districts intended to align the zoning ordinance with the county comprehensive plan.
Capel said the commission assigned two commissioners to each district and used existing ordinance language plus comparisons to other localities to draft proposed intents, permitted uses and special-use lists. “For us, this began roughly last summer,” Capel said, summarizing the multi-month process and noting the drafts are the commission’s starting point for board and staff comment.
The five district concepts Capel described were: A1 (conservation agricultural), A2 (less restrictive agricultural), Rural Residential (to capture existing small-lot…
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