LEGAL NOTICE

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

The Cochise County Board of Supervisors hereby gives notice that a Public Hearing will be held at a REVISED DATE or after 10:00 A.M. on Tuesday, March 2, 2010 at 1415 Melody Lane, Building G, Bisbee, Arizona, to consider the following:

Docket R-10-01: Consideration of adoption of revisions to the existing Cochise County Building Safety Code Owner-Builder Amendment Options and to Section 508 of the Cochise County Zoning Regulations. The existing County Building Safety Code Owner-Builder Amendment limits eligibility to Owner-Builders on properties located in the RU, SM, and SR categories zoned for a minimum lot size of four acres and in Growth Category D Rural or Rural Residential. The Planning and Zoning Commission at a public hearing held on January 13, 2010 recommends to the Board of Supervisors that the revisions replace the eligibility based on the RU, SM or SR zoning district categories and "D" Growth Category designation to eligibility based on minimum four-acre lot size and zoning designation, regardless of Growth Category designation. Setbacks would remain the same as they are currently for the zoning district. Owner builders lying within zoning districts with less than 4-acre minimum lot size requirements but with parcels of four acres or more and who want to take advantage of the Owner-Builder Opt Out Amendment could request a “downzoning” to a four acre minimum zoning district at no cost for the rezoning process. On March 2, 2010, the Board of Supervisors may also consider their original proposed amendment of a minimum setback of seventy-five (75) feet from the subject property line in all directions or may consider a lesser setback. The amendment to Section 508 of the Zoning Regulations would complement the County Building Safety Code Owner-Builder Amendment and would define what a Rural zoning district is for the purposes of application of building codes and ARS 11-861 et seq.

Details of the above docket are on file in the office of the Cochise County Planning Department, 1415 Melody Lane, Bisbee, Arizona, Building E, and may be examined during office hours (Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.). With comments or questions, please contact Zoning Administrator Rick Corley at 520.432-9240 or rhcorley@cochise.az.gov. All persons interested in said matter may appear at said public hearing at said time and place and show cause, if any they have, why said amendments should or should not be approved.

Dated this 2nd Day of February 2010

Ann English, Chair, Cochise County Board of Supervisors

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