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DISTRICT <br />UNDISTURBED AREA <br />UNIV -CA <br />The area necessary to meet impervious surface requirements shall <br />CANE -CA <br />remain undisturbed during the construction process. <br />U- ENO -CA <br />The area to remain undisturbed shall include portions of the lot utilized <br />for stormwater infiltration. <br />All clearing limits shall be clearly marked and observed. <br />All Other Watershed <br />As may be required pursuant to an approved grading permit or <br />Overlay Districts <br />erosion control plan. <br />6.23.7 STREAM BUFFERS <br />Amended <br />9/18/01 <br />5/20/03 a) Definition <br />See Article 22 Stream Buffer <br />b) Permitted Uses Within Stream Buffers <br />*Amended <br />1 -17 -95 The following uses are allowed as a matter of right in stream buffers. All <br />other uses are prohibited, except as provided in Article 6.23.10 of this <br />Ordinance. <br />1) Above - ground and buried utility lines for local distribution of <br />electricity, telephone and cable television service, accessory and <br />appurtenant apparatus such as poles, guy wires, transformers <br />and switching boxes, and individual or community wells. <br />Individual or community wastewater disposal systems are not <br />permitted in stream buffers. <br />Public water and sewer lines are permitted only as allowed by the <br />Orange County Water and Sewer Policy, and may be located <br />within stream buffers only to the extent necessary to cross the <br />stream buffer as closely as possible to perpendicular. <br />2) Public and private streets, bridges and railroad rights -of -way, <br />provided that they enter and exit the buffer area as nearly <br />perpendicular as possible. <br />c) Land Disturbance and Planting of Vegetation <br />1) Area within a stream buffer which is subject to serious erosion <br />may be disturbed for the purpose of planting and maintaining <br />erosion- resistant vegetative cover. <br />Amended <br />5/21/97 2) Existing forested areas or any other healthy vegetation cannot be <br />removed from a stream buffer, except where replaced with <br />vegetation resulting in comparable stormwater runoff velocity and <br />quantity one year after planting. <br />6 -40 <br />