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10 <br />Allowable: Allowable with <br />UseslActivities: Mitigation: <br />Drainage of a pond in a natural drainage way <br />provided that a new riparian buffer that meets all X <br />applicable Orange Count requirements iricluding <br />the Orange County Stormwater and Zoning <br />Ordinance The drainaae of the pond shall be re- <br />established along the new channel. <br />Note• New drainage outfalls that do not provide control for nitrogen before discharging <br />through the riparian buffer or the proposed excavation of the streambed in order to bring <br />it to the same elevation as the invert of a ditch are strictly prohibited <br />Note• The allowance and permitted maintenance of outfalls does not include the <br />piping or elimination of a stream for any purpose <br />Driveway crossings of streams and other surface waters as follows: <br />1 Driveway crassings on single family <br />residential lots that disturb less than, or equal <br />' to twenty-five (25) linear feet or twenty-five X <br />hundred (2 500) square feet of riparian buffer <br />2 Driveway crossings on single family <br />residential lots that disturbs less than, or <br />equal to one hundred fifty (150) linear feet X <br />or one-third (113) of an acre of riparian <br />buffer <br />Driveway/road crossings of streams and other surface waters within subdivisions as <br />1 In a subdivision that cumulatively disturbs <br />less than or equal to one hundred fifty (150) X <br />linear feet or one-third (1/3) of an acre of <br />riparian buffer <br />2 In a subdivision that cumulatively disturbs <br />greater than one hundred fift~(150) linear X <br />feet or one-third (1/3) of an acre of riparian <br />buffer <br />Note• Any driveway or roadway whether for a single-family residence or a subdivision <br />road that are parallel to the stream or water body shall be treated as Allowable with <br />Mitigation regardless of the cumulative impact. <br />A- 10 <br />