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6 <br /> DRAFT 4 <br /> in the Courtroom in the Old County Courthouse in Hillsborough, N. C. to <br /> receive the Planning Board recommendation. <br /> VOTE: UNANIMOUS <br /> END --t <br /> NOTE: ALL REMAINING ITEMS WILL BE CONSIDERED TOGETHER <br /> 1. (b) CP-4-93 Watershed Protection <br /> 2 . ZONING ATLAS AMENDMENTS <br /> (a) Z-5-93 Little River Township <br /> (b) A-6-93 Cedar Grove Township <br /> (c) Z-7-93 Watershed Overlay Districts <br /> 3 . ZONING ORDINANCE TEXT AMENDMENTS <br /> (a) Article 4 . 2 . 27 Watershed Protection Overlay Districts - <br /> Intent and application Criteria <br /> (b) Article 6.23 Extra Requirements for Watershed Protection <br /> Overlay Districts <br /> (c) Article 22 Definitions <br /> (d) Appendix Detention Pond Design standards <br /> 4 . SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS TEXT AMENDMENTS <br /> (a) Section IV-B-1 Lot Standards <br /> (b) Section IV-B-5 Lot Layout <br /> (c) Section IV-B-8 Landscape and Buffer Requirements <br /> (d) Section IV-B-9 Watershed Protection Standards (delete) <br /> (e) Section IV-B-10 Cluster Developments <br /> (f) Section V-C Specifications for Plat Drawings <br /> (Prelim. Plan) <br /> (g) Section V-D Specifications for Plat Drawings <br /> (Final Plat) <br /> Mary Willis presented proposed amendments to the Orange County <br /> Zoning Atlas, Zoning Ordinance, Subdivision Regulations and Land Use <br /> Element of the Comprehensive Plan for the purpose of extending zoning to <br /> Little River and. Cedar Grove Townships and implementing State mandated <br /> watershed protection standards. On June 23 , 1989, the North Carolina <br /> General Assembly passed the Water Supply Watershed Protection Act. The <br /> purpose of the Act, as stated in its opening paragraph, is " . . .to protect <br /> and enhance the quality of the State's surface water supplies by <br /> establishing a cooperative program of water supply protection to be <br /> administered by local governments consistent with statewide management <br /> requirements established by the Environmental Management Commission (EMC) . " <br /> The EMC, with the NC Division of Environmental Management (DEM) , as its <br /> staff is the State's appointed board on environmental and resource <br /> protection. Its charge was to: <br /> -Develop and adopt watershed protection minimum rules, classifications <br /> and standards; and <br /> -Classify each water supply watershed across the State into categories <br /> consistent with these rules. <br /> The EMC created five watershed classifications for freshwater <br />