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I\ <br /> • Stream restoration, <br /> • Wetlands creation/low-impact design, <br /> • Source control of fertilizer and pet waste, <br /> • Street sweeping, <br /> • Stormwater capture and reuse, <br /> • Creating and enhancing stream buffers, <br /> • Treatment of property redevelopment (changes in use, new permits), <br /> • Overtreatment of new development, <br /> • Retrofits to existing development, <br /> • Advanced wastewater treatment at wastewater treatment plants, and <br /> • Removal of existing impervious cover. <br /> Stream Buffers <br /> This would require implementation of programs to protect existing vegetated <br /> stream buffers within 50 feet of intermittent and perennial streams, with the first <br /> 30 feet being undisturbed vegetation and forest and the second 20 feet allowed <br /> to be managed vegetation. Existing activities would be permitted to continue <br /> within buffers, but any change in land use would trigger the new rules. <br /> There are other provisions for mitigation of buffers and specified allowable uses, <br /> but the existing Orange County regulations are more stringent that the new <br /> proposed rules, and should adequately address this component of the Jordan <br /> Lake Nutrient Rules. <br /> Jordan Lake <br /> Offset Options and Nutrient Trading <br /> As noted above, most of the parties affected by these rules have options for <br /> offsite loading reduction — buying other stream buffer land or paying a fee to <br /> existing or new programs that do stream restoration and other nutrient reduction <br /> 9 <br />