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21 <br />EXISTING COUNTY REGULATIONS — STREAM BUFFERS: <br />Mitigation /repair of stream buffers (perpendicular disturbance): <br />• Current regulations encourage perpendicular disturbance of a stream <br />buffer for roads and driveways, <br />• There are currently no standards to mitigate the disturbance of the <br />stream buffer when these uses are installed, <br />• Many of the uses we allow now, with no mitigation, DWQ requires <br />mitigation under existing Neuse River Basin regulations. <br />A graphic example of this problem is as follows: <br />soWater • • • Required stream buffer area <br />®• Body • • <br />• <br />• <br />• . Disturbed Area — current <br />• regulations do not require <br />replanting of disturbed area, <br />does not define what is <br />considered perpendicular, and <br />• does not require developer to <br />® follow any standards to avoid <br />se <br />• • unnecessary disturbance of the <br />® • stream buffer <br />• 0 <br />• • Developable area <br />• • <br />® • • • Existing vegetation <br />•• Oool <br />B -21 <br />