Orange County NC Website
Browse       Search
A. Declaration of Restrictions <br /> 1. The Orange County Planning Department shall author a Declaration of <br /> Restrictions (hereafter 'the document') establishing and describing the <br /> various development restrictions, standards, conditions, and requirements <br /> associated with development of, and within, the project. <br /> The document shall be recorded concurrently with the Final Plat and <br /> approved, as to form and content, by the applicant and the County <br /> Attorney. <br /> 2. The document is not intended to serve, supplant, or take the place of any <br /> document recorded by the applicant establishing local homeowner <br /> covenants, or deed restrictions enforced by either the applicant or an <br /> established homeowners association. <br /> B. Sewage Disposal <br /> 1. Each residential lot shall contain an adequate area for septic disposal and <br /> repair area, approved by the Orange County Division of Environmental <br /> Health. <br /> 2. The septic system location may restrict the size and location of <br /> improvements. <br /> The document shall contain this statement and further indicate information <br /> regarding the tentative location of septic systems is available from the <br /> Orange County Health Department, Division of Environmental Health. <br /> Each lot that does not contain a suitable building site shall be designated <br /> both on the Final Plat and by instrument recorded in the Orange County <br /> Registrar of Deeds as restricted for development potential as set forth in <br /> the UDO. <br /> 3. The owner/applicant shall not destroy trees located within identified land <br /> use buffers, stream buffers, open space areas, or tree protection areas <br /> denoted on the Final Plat for the installation of on-site waste disposal <br /> system drain or repair fields. <br /> 4. No septic system shall be located within a required stream buffer as <br /> detailed within the UDO. <br /> 5. The Owners shall include in the restrictive covenants provisions requiring <br /> each lot owner to have the septic system serving their lot inspected by a <br /> licensee of the North Carolina On-Site Wastewater Contractors and <br /> Inspectors Certification Board, who is properly registered to perform such <br /> inspections within Orange County, no less than one (1) time in every five <br /> (5) year period (unless inspections are required more often by rule or <br /> regulation of the Orange County Health Department) and to have the <br /> system pumped if recommended by the inspector. <br />