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Ordinance to Public Hearing 4 November 20, 2006 neighborhood commons or greens; playfields; buffers adjacent to wetlands, watercourses, and rural roads; wildlife corridors; or trail links. Each lot must contain a 'buildable' area of sufficient size to accommodate a single- family detached dwelling and customary accessory uses, including, but not limited to, storage buildings and garages, patios and decks, lawns, driveways, septic systems including repair areas and well sites. A septic system -and/or well site may be located in a sSecondary GConservation Gpe-n space aArea provided it does not occupy more than one quarter of the sSecondaryqConservation aArea. No septic system, repair area and /or well shall can be located in the parimary GConservation aArea. (Amended 10119199) Provided the arrangement, design, and shape of cluster lots is such that lots provide satisfactory and desirable sites for building, and contribute to the preservation of designated Primary and/or Secondary Conservation Areas, minimum lot area, lot width, and setback requirements as specified in Article 4.1.2 of the Orange County Zoning Ordinance may be reduced as set forth below. o Minimum lot area requirements may be reduced by sixty-five percent (65%) of the minimum lot size permitted by the zoning district including any overlay district requirements; however, minimum lot area may not be smaller than 40,000 square feet within a watershed protection overlay district where lots are served by individual septic systems. o Minimum lot width requirements maybe reduced to 100 feet in the AR and R1 Districts. Minimum lot width requirements may be reduced by 30% in all other zoning districts. o Minimum front, rear, and side setback requirements may be reduced by twenty- five percent (25%) but shall be no less than ten (10) feet. o Minimum lot frontage requirements may be reduced to twenty (20) feet for lots fronting on cul-de-sacs and "T" turnarounds. []Mini . ig between building envelopes and the subdivisien beundary or off- site publiG s-tFeet right--of way shall be 100 feet and may be GGunted as open Conservation-cluster subdivisions shall provide a minimum perimeter buffer, as set forth below, between the proposed lot property lines and the subdivision boundary. Buffers shall be in common ownership and administered in accordance with Section IV-13-110 C.5. This perimeter buffer may be credited toward minimum open space requirements provided all other open space requirements have been met. The Planning and Inspections Department shall determine the adequacy of existing vegetation towards meeting the required planting standards.