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09/21/17 Page 2 of 2 <br />Memo to Current Planning EC/Stormwater Comments – Settlers Point MPCZ <br />S:\5_Erosion Control and Water Quality\Correspondence\HWF\DAC\SettlersPointMPD-CZ\HWF-OC-E&SC-SM_Memo(SettlersPointMPD-CZ)092117.doc <br />EROSION & SEDIMENTATION CONTROL / STORMWATER MANAGEMENT <br />COMMENTS: <br />The project will have to comply with the provisions of Section(s) 6.14 Stormwater <br />Management and 6.15 Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control of the Orange County <br />Unified Development Ordinance (UDO), as proposed. <br />According to the application, Settlers Point will be a mixed use development project, <br />including light industrial / manufacturing and research, commercial and residential. All <br />parcels, with exception of the most southeasterly boundary of the proposed residential <br />“District 3” parcels, lie within the Lower Eno Protected Watershed. That most <br />southeasterly boundary along West Scarlett Mountain Road flirts with the Jordan Lake <br />Unprotected Watershed. Both of those watersheds have the same land disturbance <br />thresholds, as follows: <br />• 20,000 SF – An Erosion Control Plan is required <br />• A Stormwater Management Plan is required if cumulative proposed disturbed <br />area exceeds… <br /> 12,000 SF for multi-family residential development, or a commercial, industrial <br />or institutional facility <br /> 21,780 SF for single family or duplex residential development or recreational <br />facility. <br />Having reviewed the subject project, Erosion & Sedimentation Control / Stormwater staff <br />members understand this project must proceed through certain discretionary actions in <br />order to determine functional and economic viability, prior to the developers investing in <br />more detailed design and subsequent jurisdictional submittals for compliance reviews <br />and permits. <br />This being stated, we find no fundamental objections to this project moving forward <br />through this discretionary approval. <br /> 299