Orange County supervisors review proposed 'Technology District' standards; staff to clarify buffers, setbacks and uses

Orange County supervisors and staff spent most of their meeting reviewing proposed zoning standards for a new Technology District, focusing on lot coverage, buffers and setbacks, frontage along primary highways and which uses would be allowed. Staff emphasized the Berkeley Group’s technical memo and asked the board to give direction on several open details; no formal votes were taken.

Staff member (Speaker 5) told the group the packet includes the Berkeley Group’s memo and an edited draft of the Technology District and summarized prior consensus that the county would not prescribe minimum lot sizes. "We agreed as a, a group that, will let the market dictate in terms of lot size for Technology District," Speaker 5 said, describing the group’s earlier direction to avoid minimum lot-size requirements.

A centrally discussed technical recommendation was Berkeley Group comment RC 26. "The Berkeley Group under comment RC 26 proposes a maximum lot coverage of 70% for the T District," Speaker 5 read aloud, explaining that the 70% figure refers to impervious coverage (building footprints, travel lanes and parking) with the remainder retained as…