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�f 0'74 <br /> SECTION x. PURPOSE AUTEIORXTY JURISDICTION <br /> I A. PURPOSE <br /> The purpose of these subdivision regulations is to guide <br /> and regulate the subdivision of land within Orange County, <br /> for sale or building development, in order to insure the <br /> public health, safety, and welfare, and to provide for the <br /> sound use of the land. The regulations included herein are <br /> designed to insure adequate planning of street systems; to <br /> avoid overcrowding of land, prevent fine, panic, and ppher <br /> dangers; insure that water and sewage systems be life and <br /> adequate; 'to prevent flood damage; to facilitate an orderly <br /> use of land; to insure the proper legal description and <br /> monugenti.ng of subdivided land; and to encourage the proper <br /> management of Orange County's natural resources. <br /> It is the expressed purpose of this Ordinance to provide <br /> .for, in addition to the above, the protection of w4er re- <br /> sources in Orange County, through the use, alone or in com- <br /> bination, of buffer zones, varying lot sizes, slope <br /> restrictions, vegetation, or other equally effective techni- <br /> ques. Innovative techniques an the part of the developer, <br /> axe encouraged where these techniques can be shown to be as <br /> effective as the specific requirements of the Ordinance. <br /> I - B. AUTHORITY <br /> The County of Orange hereby establishes and adopts these <br /> regulations governing the subdivision or resubdivision of <br /> land pursuant to the authority granted it by the General <br /> Statutes of North Carolina, chapter 39, Articles 5 anal 5A and <br /> Chapter 47, Article 2, Section 30, and Chapter 153A, <br /> Article 18, Part 2. <br /> I W C. JURISDICTION <br /> These regulations shall govern each and every subdivision <br /> or resubdivision of land within. Orange County outside the <br /> subdivision jurisdiction of any incorporated municipality in <br /> the County <br /> Purpose Authority, Jurisdiction <br /> 1. Section I--D (Proposed new section): Private Property Ri hts <br /> �1tis Ordinance, all material included herein by reference and all material <br /> used for the administration of this Ordinance, do not take <br /> any property, property right inor property use nor convert any 4f these to <br /> Public use except by due process of law. --' a -a --- <br /> ._e n�c <br /> Y� a •, r8. <br />