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Zoning text amendment items in Orange County, between 3 Sep 2025 and 3 Sep 2026

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Zoning text amendment18
Environment and sustainability7
Subdivision and site plans7
Stormwater and flooding6
Water and sewer3
Housing and affordability2
Land conversion and large development2
Rezoning2
Roads and transportation2
Broadband and technology1
Budget and appropriations1
Comprehensive plan1
  1. Wed, Sep 2 Orange County · Planning Board
    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
  2. Wed, Sep 2 Orange County · Planning Board
    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.
  3. Tue, Sep 1 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    A public hearing on amending the Unified Development Ordinance's subdivision administration provisions.
  4. Wed, Aug 12 Orange County · Planning Board
    Continued review of planning director-initiated amendments to the Unified Development Ordinance across several topic areas, described by staff as mostly housekeeping. Held over from the July 1 meeting.
    Discussion item Zoning text amendment
  5. Wed, Jul 1 Orange County · Planning Board
    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…
  6. Wed, Jun 3 Orange County · Planning Board
    Review of planning director-initiated amendments to the Unified Development Ordinance covering several topic areas, primarily housekeeping changes.
    Tabled to the July 1 committee meeting for lack of time
  7. Wed, Jun 3 Orange County · Planning Board
    Staff-led training for recently appointed members on the basics of land use regulation in Orange County, covering communication, how site planning accounts for development regulations in fitting a single-family house to the rules, the roles county departments play in development review, and what the planning board's r…
  8. Wed, May 6 Orange County · Planning Board
    Staff-led training for recently appointed planning board members on the basics of land use regulation in Orange County, led by the deputy director for long range planning and administration.
  9. Wed, May 6 Orange County · Planning Board
    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
  10. Wed, Feb 4 Orange County · Planning Board
    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…
  11. Tue, Jan 20 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    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
  12. Dec 3, 2025 Orange County · Planning Board
    Planning director-initiated amendments to the unified development ordinance covering error corrections, recent state law changes, internal inconsistencies and school needs. The committee discussed rules applying to UNC school system property and their effect on other entities, erosion control waivers and permitting, z…
  13. Dec 3, 2025 Orange County · Planning Board
    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
  14. Nov 20, 2025 Orange County · Housing Authority Board
    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.
  15. Nov 18, 2025 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    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
  16. Nov 17, 2025 Orange County · Orange Unified Transportation Board
    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…
  17. Nov 6, 2025 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    The text amendments were continued to the November 18 business meeting, where they were adopted.
    Continued to November 18
  18. Oct 1, 2025 Orange County · Planning Board
    Planning-director-initiated amendments to the Unified Development Ordinance covering impervious surfaces, watershed protection overlay districts and stream buffers, largely to align with the state's 2024 Regulatory Reform Act and to adjust reservoir setbacks around Lake Orange.
    Recommended for approval to the Board of Commissioners, unanimous

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