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L} <br /> 12 <br /> Public Hearing Ordinance <br /> Section 4: Amend Detailed Table of Contents Section 6.24 to read as follows: <br /> Stream Buffers Outside of Watershed Protection Overlay Districts <br /> Section 5: Amend new Section 6.24 to include a minimum stream buffer for areas <br /> outside of Orange County Watershed Protection Overlay Districts to read <br /> as follows: <br /> In areas not identified on the Official Zoning Atlas as Watershed <br /> Protection Overlay Districts, a stream buffer a minimum of 30 feet in <br /> width shall be established along both sides of perennial streams and <br /> intermittent streams, or along the FEMA identified floodplains, <br /> whichever is greater. Perennial streams are those streams shown as <br /> solid blue lines, and intermittent streams are those streams shown <br /> as broken blue lines on the USGS Quadrangle maps for Orange <br /> County. <br /> Section 6: Amend Detailed Table of Contents Section 6.25 to read as follows: <br /> Minimum Usable Lot Area for Lots on Ground Absorption <br /> Wastewater Systems <br /> Section 7: Amend the new Section 6.25 to set minimum usable lot area when Ground <br /> Absorption Wastewater Systems are used to read as follows: <br /> The usable lot for parcels between 40,000 square feet and <br /> 1.99 acres in size shall be either 30,000 square feet or 40% of the <br /> total zoning lot,whichever is greater. Zoning lots two acres and <br /> greater shall have a minimum usable lot area of at least 40,000 <br /> square feet. <br /> Section 8: This ordinance shall be effective upon its adoption. <br /> (Signature) (Signature) <br /> Clerk, Board of County Commissioners Chair, Orange County Commissioners <br /> Date and Seal <br />