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BOCC Adopted Ordinance ~ Q ,~ _ ~~ ~ ~ ,,, Q 31 O <br />(With Changes made by BOCC) ~~a QQ _-~~V ~ <br />0 <br />An Ordinance Amending the Zoning Ordinance <br />Of Orange County <br />Be it ordained by the Board of Commissioners of Orange County that the Orange <br />County Zoning Ordinance is hereby amended as follows: <br />Section 1. Amend Article 22 definition for Stream Buffer to read as follows: <br />Stream Buffer--A stream buffer is an area of land adjacent to a <br />streams or a FEMA-identified floodplains, <br />whichever is greater, which, except as permitted in Article 6.23.7 of this <br />Ordinance, must remain undisturbed in its natural state. °°,-~,~1 <br />Streams are sfiewr~ identified as by any of the following means: 1) <br />shown as solid blue lines a~ or as broken blue lines on the USGS <br />Quadrangle maps, 2) shown as a water feature in the Orange <br />County Soil Survey, or 3) a water feature identified by a field <br />determination of County staff trained in surface water <br />identification through the North Carolina Division of Water Quality <br />(NCDWQZ. Stream buffers shall extend around the perimeter of all <br />other water mss-features if any portion of the stream buffer touches <br />the water ~edy feature. Disputes pertaining to water feature <br />identification decisions by County staff shall be filed directly to <br />the NCDWQ. Stream buffers for Soil Survey streams shall only be <br />calculated using Method A as explained. in Section 6.23.7d. <br />Section 2. Amend Stream Buffers definition in Article 6.23.7definition to read as <br />follows: <br />a) Definition---See Article 22 Stream Buffer <br />Section 3. Amend Article 22 to add a new definition for Water Feature to read as <br />follows: <br />Water Feature-A prominent aspect or characteristic of a <br />geographic area that exhibits verifiable evidence of a presence of <br />water in the soil. Examples of water features include, but are not <br />limited to, perennial and intermittent streams, lakes, ponds, <br />reservoirs, springs, artesian wells, irrigation wells, marshes or <br />swamps, wetlands, and natural drainage ditches (non-ephemeral). <br />Section 4: Amend Section 6.23.10 APPLICABILITY to read as follows: <br />a) Existing Development <br />