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8 <br /> Post PH to Planning Board Ordinance <br /> Hereafter, the number derived in e. will be referred to as "slope value". <br /> 2) Method A—Stream Buffer Based on Slope and Groundcover <br /> The width of the buffer shall be a minimum of fifty (50) feet from each <br /> edge of the floodplain. , plus the slepe Yalue multiplied by In addition <br /> to the fifty (50)feet buffer, an additional 30 feet shall be added to the <br /> 50 feet buffer where the slope value is less than 7.5%, as measured <br /> 250 feet from the edge of the floodplain. For slope values 7.5% and <br /> greater, as measured 250 feet from the edge of the floodplain, an <br /> additional 50 feet shall be added to the 60 feet buffer(100 feet total). <br /> These calculations shall be made from each side of the stream bank <br /> or floodplain. <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 50 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 that Utilize 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 a minimum of 30,000 square feet Zoning <br /> lots two acres and greater shall have a minimum usable lot area of at <br /> least 40,000 square feet. <br /> Section 8: This ordinance shall be effective upon its adoption. <br /> G:robert/august2000ph/StreamBuffer0rdinance(PostPHtoPB) <br />