Orange County NC Website
Browse       Search
D. Modify development standards to reduce the amount of impervious surfaces created by: <br />• Promoting the use of pervious (i.e. porous) pavement; <br />• Reducing parking space requirements, and creating maximum limits on number of <br />parking spaces allowed; <br />• Encouraging site designs that reduce necessary driveway lengths; <br />• Reducing required travel lane widths of roads by working with DOT on design standard <br />requirements. <br />Note: This action strategy should not be construed to undermine the previous <br />recommendation promoting bicycle lanes and sidewalks. There is an environmental <br />trade -off in building these, but the environmental benefits of building them out weigh the <br />negative impact of creating more impervious surface. <br />E. Create fee structure for stormwater management which is based on property size and <br />which is reduced when smaller percentages of a property consist of lawns or high maintenance <br />vegetation. <br />F. Improve tree planting requirements for parking lots in order to reduce the tonnage of <br />auto gas that evaporates into air in hot parking lots. <br />G. Establish environmental standards that all development proposals must meet for approval. <br />Cleo <br />