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10 <br />Staff's proposal seeks to amend the UDO to require overlay districts <br />with a 6% impervious surface limit to submit a professionally <br />prepared site plan. <br />7. A BOCC member indicated he felt there ought to be a reevaluation of <br />impervious surface limits within respect to any watershed feeding into a <br />public water intake for local residents. <br />The concern was the County was treating certain water supply watersheds <br />differently from others, specifically focusing on the Haw River Protected <br />Watershed Overlay District which serves as a public water source for <br />Chatham County residents. <br />STAFF COMMENT. This can be undertaken at some point in the <br />future if the BOCC directs staff to do so. It should be noted any <br />such review will need to take existing State requirements into <br />account. <br />8. A BOCC member asked staff to consider modifying provisions of Section <br />2.4.1 to include additional rationale for the submission of a universal site <br />plan into the proposed text. This BOCC member indicated she felt <br />language within a footnote ought to be incorporated to provide additional <br />`explanation' on the need for the amendment. <br />STAFF COMMENT. Staff does not recommend additional <br />modification. <br />When the UDO was developed there was a conscious effort to <br />eliminate explanatory language in an effort to streamline existing <br />regulations and condense existing land use regulations. <br />The UDO is not intended to serve as a technical manual providing <br />detailed insight into every `standard' associated with a given <br />development. It is, ultimately, staff's responsibility to educate local <br />residents and developers with respect to the rationale behind a <br />given regulation. <br />Unless specifically directed by the BOCC to begin re- inserting <br />explanatory language, staff recommends keeping the language <br />regulatory in nature. <br />9. While there was no formal consensus, a few BOCC members favored <br />leaving language within the UDO requiring submission of a professionally <br />prepared site plan for property located only within the University Lake <br />Watershed Protection Overlay District. <br />Other BOCC members expressed support for eliminating the requirement <br />altogether and basing the need for a formal site plan on established land <br />disturbance thresholds for stormwater management plans. <br />10.Staff was directed to solicit comments on the proposal from OWASA to <br />ascertain if they have any concerns. <br />STAFF COMMENT: Staff has contacted OWASA, which expressed <br />no concern over the proposal. For more information please refer <br />to Attachment 4. <br />