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O R A N G E C O U N T Y <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: N4y 29, 1990 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item # G -1 <br />G -2 -b <br />SUBJECT: ZONING ORDINANCE TEXT AMENDMENTS - <br />1) ARTICLE 6.15.2 INTERIM DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS APPROVED <br />2) ARTICLE 6.25.7 WATER SUPPLY /SEWAGE DISPOSAL FACILITIES <br />3) ARTICLE 22 DEFINITIONS <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning PUBLIC HEARING: _X—Yes No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Proposed Amendments Planning Director - Extension 347 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough - 732 -8181 <br />Durham - 688 -7331 <br />Mebane - 227 -2031 <br />Chapel Hill - 967 - 9251/968 -4501 <br />. PURPOSE: To receive public comment on a proposed amendment to <br />the Zoning Ordinance to clarify the application of <br />Article 6.25.7 to existing dwellings and uses. The <br />current standards would prevent such uses with failing <br />septic systems and no suitable repair area on the same <br />lot from locating nitrification fields on a separate <br />lot. <br />Definitions are also provided of "septic tank <br />system," "alternative septic system," and" community <br />alternative system." The latter definition was <br />inadvertently omitted when revisions to the interim <br />development standards for University Lake watershed <br />were adopted. <br />BACKGROUND: On April 2, 1990, the Board of Commissioners adopted <br />protection measures for University Lake watershed. The <br />new standards limit water supply and sewage treatment <br />systems to individual wells and on -site septic systems <br />or individual on -site alternative disposal systems. <br />"On- site" means that no system will be permitted where <br />effluent disposal occurs on a separate lot. Repair <br />areas must be located on the same lot as the dwelling <br />(or use) which generates the wastewater. <br />Following adoption of the standards, the County <br />Attorney was reviewing easement documents to permit the <br />septic system repair area for a dwelling to be located <br />