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4 <br />receive the Planning Board recommendation. <br />VOTE: UNANIMOUS <br />NOTE: ALL REMAINING ITEMS WILL BE CONSIDERED TOGETHER <br />1. (b) CP-4-93 Watershed Protection <br />2. ZONING ATLAS AMENDMENTS <br />(a) Z-5-93 Little River Township <br />(b) A-6-93 Cedar Grove Township <br />(c) Z-7-93 Watershed Overlay Districts <br />3. ZONING ORDINANCE TE%T AMENDMENTS <br />(a) Article 4.2.27 <br />(b) Article 6.23 <br />(c) Article 22 <br />(d) Appendix <br />Watershed Protection <br />Intent and Application <br />Extra Requirements for <br />Overlay Districts <br />Definitions <br />Detention Pond Design <br />Overlay Districts - <br />Criteria <br />Watershed Protection <br />Standards <br />4. SIIBDIVISION REGIILATIONS TE%T AMENDMENTS <br />(a) Section IV-B-1 Lot Standards <br />(b) Section IV-B-S Lot Layout <br />(c) Section IV-B-8 Landscape and Buffer Requirements <br />(d) Section IV-B-9 Watershed Protection Standards (delete) <br />(e) Section IV-B-10 Cluster Developments <br />(f) Section V-C Specifications for Plat Drawings <br /> (Prelim. Plan) <br />(g) Section V-D Specifications for Plat Drawings <br /> (Final Plat) <br />Mary Willis presented proposed amendments to the Orange County <br />Zoning Atlas, Zoning Ordinance, Subdivision Regulations and Land Use <br />Element of the Comprehensive Plan for the purpose of extending zoning to <br />Little River and Cedar Grove Townships and implementing State mandated <br />watershed protection standards. On June 23, 1989, the North Carolina <br />General Assembly passed the Water Supply Watershed Protection Act. The <br />purpose of the Act, as stated in its opening paragraph, is "...to protect <br />and enhance the quality of the State's surface water supplies by <br />establishing a cooperative program of water supply protection to be <br />administered by local governments consistent with statewide management <br />requirements established by the Environmental Management Commission (EMC)." <br />The EMC, with the NC Division of Environmental Management (DEM) as its <br />staff, is the State's appointed board on environmental and resource <br />protection. Its charge was to: <br />-Develop and adopt watershed protection minimum rules, classifications <br />and standards; and <br />-Classify each water supply watershed across the State into categories <br />consistent with these rules. <br />The EMC created five watershed classifications for freshwater <br />supplies. These classifications are based on the amount of existing and <br />