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Orange County planning panel opens process to limit frequency of farm parcel subdivisions
Summary
The Planning Commission agreed to draft and refine ordinance language after a work session on ZTA24-02, debating a proposal to slow by‑right subdivisions in agricultural zones and asking staff to produce draft text for a future work session and public hearing.
The Orange County Planning Commission on Tuesday opened a multi-step process to limit the frequency by which agriculturally zoned land can be divided as part of ZTA24-02, a county-initiated zoning text amendment aimed at slowing rapid, unplanned residential development.
Commission Chair Jason Capel introduced the item and described the intent: to "reestablish some limitation on the ability to subdivide agriculturally zoned land" and to produce a draft that could move to public hearing. Planner Josh Frederick and legal counsel Max…
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