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14 2111197 Final Draft Page 9 The purpose of this article is to protect natural, visual, and cultural resources by regulating the location, planning, design, construction, operation, and-maintenance of golf courses and associated uses. Applicability The standards contained herein shall apply to all new golf courses, whether proposed as a principal use or as an accessory use which is part of a residential subdivision, or included in a Planned Development District. Existing golf courses shall comply with the requirements of this article when fifty percent or more of the total playable acreage of golf holes is concurrently reconstructed or altered, or if an equivalent amount of playable acreage is added to an existing course. Playable acreage includes all tees, greens, fairways, and roughs. 8.8.7.2 Submittal Requirements The applicant shall submit the plans and documents specified in Articles 8.2, 8.8, and 14.2. The site plan prepared in accordance with Article 14 shall also indicate the routing plan showing the center line of play, the boundaries of fairways, greens, tees, roughs, hazards, and buffers. In addition the following items are required for a complete application: a. A written and graphic site analysis illustrating soils, depth to water table, slope, hydrology, vegetation, natural areas and habitats of special concern, infrastructure and other manmade features, historic and archaeological sites, and a visual analysis of views into and from the site; b. A biological inventory which identifies habitat diversity, species diversity, species of special concern such as those designated as threatened or endangered, last known sighting, candidate species likely to be present which may warrant protection, specimen trees outstanding in size and/or species, and the status and source of the information compiled in the inventory. The biological inventory shall be accompanied by an analysis describing habitat integrity, relationships between habitats and to ecological communities off site, any existing threats to flora and fauna, and potential for habitat enhancement; C. An Environmental Assessment as required by the Orange County Environmental Impact Ordinance; d. Grading and Erosion Control Plan; e. Stormwater Management Plan;