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o 2: ORANGE COUNTY ZONING ORDINANCE TEXT AMENDMENTS The proposed text amendments to the Orange County Zoning Ordinance are as follows: 1. Amend ARTICLE 6.23.2 WATERSHED PROTECTION OVERLAY DISTRICTS (RESIDENTIAL DENSITY) to allow contiguous lots of record (as of 10/2/89) to be combined into one parcel for development, provided the number of lots in the combined parcel does not exceed the number of lots which could have been created from the lots of record. 2. Amend ARTICLE 4.1 ESTABLISHMENT OF USE REGULATIONS to allow cabinetized telephone/fiber optic equipment as a use permitted by right in all zoning districts, with the provision that front setbacks may be reduced to 20 feet in the AR, R1 and RB districts provided that the equipment is screened from view by landscape materials. 3. Amend ARTICLE 6.23.7b WATERSHED PROTECTION OVERLAY DISTRICTS (PERMITTED USES WITHIN STREAM BUFFERS) to allow individual or community wells to be located within stream buffers. 4. Amend ARTICLE 6.23.8 WATERSHED PROTECTION OVERLAY DISTRICTS (WATER SUPPLY/SEWAGE DISPOSAL FACILITIES) to reduce required setbacks for septic tanks, septic pumps, and related equipment, from 300 feet to 150' feet from a water supply reservoir. Nitrification fields would continue to be located a minimum of 300 feet from a water supply reservoir. 5. Amend ARTICLE 6.23.10a WATERSHED PROTECTION OVERLAY DISTRICTS (APPLICABILITY-EXISTING DEVELOPMENT) to more explicitly define existing development as a residential or non-residential structure which had established a vested right under North Carolina zoning law prior to January 1, 1994,and to deem existing development to be conforming with respect o requirements of the Watershed Protection Overlay Districts. 6. Amend ARTICLE 6.23.10b WATERSHED PROTECTION OVERLAY DISTRICTS (APPLICABILITY - REDEVELOPMENT) to allow for the rebuilding or replacement of existing development in its current location provided that there is no increase in impervious surface and no increase in any existing encroachment into buffers or setbacks. 7. Add ARTICLE 6.23.10c WATERSHED PROTECTION OVERLAY DISTRICTS(APPLICABILITY -EXISTING LOTS)to allow setbacks and buffers for development on lots created prior to January 1, 1994 to be reduced if all of the following criteria are met: a. The septic system is sized for no more than four bedrooms; and b. septic area and repair can be accommodated on 20,000 square feet or less; and c. encroachment into setbacks is necessary in order to build on the lot; and d. the relative location of the well, septic system and structure maximizes the degree of watershed protection which can be obtained while allowing development of the lot; and e. the amount of encroachment is the minimum that can be obtained while meeting the above criteria; and f. there are no existing water quality problems caused by malfunctioning septic systems within 300 feet of the reservoir. 8. Amend ARTICLE 6.23.11 WATERSHED PROTECTION OVERLAY DISTRICTS (ADMINISTRATION) to clarify that the requirement that the Environmental Management Commission (EMC) approve variance requests applies only when a reduction in a requirement which takes the form of a numerical standard exceeds 10%of the minimum required by the EMC.