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A. Declaration of Restrictions <br />The Orange County Planning Department shall author a Declaration of <br />Restrictions (hereafter 'the document') establishing and describing the <br />various development restrictions, standards, conditions, and requirements <br />associated with development of, and within, the project. <br />The document shall be recorded concurrently with the Final Plat and <br />approved, as to form and content, by the applicant and the County <br />Attorney. <br />2. The document is not intended to serve, supplant, or take the place of any <br />document recorded by the applicant establishing local homeowner <br />covenants, or deed restrictions enforced by either the applicant or an <br />established homeowners association. <br />B. Sewage Disposal <br />1. Each residential lot shall contain an adequate area for septic disposal and <br />repair area, approved by the Orange County Division of Environmental <br />Health. <br />2. The septic system location may restrict the size and location of <br />improvements. <br />The document shall contain this statement and further indicate information <br />regarding the tentative location of septic systems is available from the <br />Orange County Health Department, Division of Environmental Health. <br />Each lot that does not contain a suitable building site shall be designated <br />both on the Final Plat and by instrument recorded in the Orange County <br />Registrar of Deeds as restricted for development potential as set forth in <br />the UDO. <br />3. The owner /applicant shall not destroy trees located within identified land <br />use buffers, stream buffers, open space areas, or tree protection areas <br />denoted on the Final Plat for the installation of on -site waste disposal <br />system drain or repair fields. <br />a. No septic system shall be located within a required stream buffer as <br />detailed within the UDO. <br />5. The Owners shall include in the restrictive covenants provisions requiring <br />each lot owner to have the septic system serving their lot inspected by a <br />licensee of the North Carolina On -Site Wastewater Contractors and <br />Inspectors Certification Board, who is property registered to perform such <br />inspections within Orange County, no less than one (1) time in every five <br />(5) year period (unless inspections are required more often by rule or <br />regulation of the Orange County Health Department) and to have the <br />system pumped if recommended by the inspector. <br />Payment for the inspections required under this condition shall be the <br />responsibility of the individual lot owner or the homeowner's association <br />