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Ordinance Review Committee

Orange County · Planning Board
Wednesday, February 4, 2026

Committee meeting Subdivision and site plansZoning text amendment

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What's on this agenda

The Orange County planning board's ordinance review committee met at 8 p.m. on February 4, straight after the regular meeting, to begin reviewing the planning director's amendments to the county's subdivision review processes and classifications.

Attendance is optional and no quorum is needed, so the committee takes no votes.

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Meeting recap

What happened, drawn from the records published after the meeting. Minutes

Orange County's Ordinance Review Committee spent two hours on February 4 going through planning staff's draft changes to subdivision review, including when a subdivision splitting off from a single parent tract should trigger a full review. Members debated whether more or fewer subdivision applications should require planning board review and asked staff to clarify how public notice and neighborhood meetings work under the current process.

The committee also asked staff to pull a five-year history of approved major subdivisions to inform its review. The committee does not require a quorum and took no votes.

Who spoke

No members of the public spoke.

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Agenda items (1)

Ordinance · 1
  1. 2 UDO Text Amendment – Subdivision Regulations
    Ordinance Subdivision and site plansZoning text amendment
    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 except for Flexible Development projects, and aligns subdivision definitions with the state statutes.

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