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I O R A N G E C O U N T Y BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: June 25. 1991 Action Agenda _ Item # vllf-L SUBJECT: ZONING ORDINANCE TEXT AMENDMENTS - 1) ARTICLE 6.15.2 INTERIM DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS APPROVED 2) ARTICLE 6.25.7 WATER SUPPLY /SEWAGE DISPOSAL FACILITIES 3) ARTICLE 22 DEFINITIONS DEPARTMENT: Planning PUBLIC HEARING: Yes __X _No ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: Proposed Amendments Planning Director - Extension 347 5/29/90 Public Hearing Minutes TELEPHONE NUMBERS: 6/18/90 Planning Board Hillsborough - 732 -8181 Minutes Durham - 688 -7331 Mebane - 227 -2031 Chapel Hill - 967 - 9251/968 -4501 PURPOSE: To consider a proposed amendment to the Zoning Ordinance to clarify the application of Article 6.25.7 to existing lots, dwellings, and uses. The current standards would prevent existing lots with no suitable repair area, and uses with failing septic systems and no suitable repair area on the same lot from locating nitrification fields on separate lot. Definitions are also provided of "septic tank system," "alternative septic system," and" community alternative system." The latter definition was inadvertently omitted when revisions to the interim development standards for University Lake watershed were adopted. BACKGROUND: On April 2, 1990, the Board of Commissioners adopted protection measures for University Lake watershed. The new standards limit water supply and sewage treatment systems to individual wells and on -site septic systems or individual on -site alternative disposal systems. "On- site" means that no system will be permitted where effluent disposal occurs on a separate lot. Repair areas must be located on the same lot as the dwelling (or use) which generates the wastewater. Following adoption of the standards, the County