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Approved 10/4/17 2 Tony Blake asked if the effect of this proposed amendment would be on management practices as in not needing to have a 53 water garden or something of the like. 54 55 Allison Reinert said that this refers to Best Management Practices, stormwater control measures – 56 57 Tony Blake asked if all of that is going away. 58 59 Allison Reinert said that yes, as long as the developer can still meet the quantity rules. 60 61 Tony Blake asked if the quantity rules have changed. 62 63 Allison Reinert replied that they have not changed but that some developers need to retain some of the water so there is not 64 too much over land flow and other stormwater retention features. 65 66 Tony Blake commented that runoff issues would still be considered. 67 68 Allison Reinert confirmed this. 69 70 Tony Blake thanked her for the clarification. 71 72 Allison Reinert continued going over the proposed changes to the UDO. She said that another change is to get rid of section I 73 as there is no Jordan Water Nutrient Supply Strategy because it is directly correlated to the nutrient rules. 74 75 Randy Marshall said that he presumed that Orange County has stormwater regulations. A part from anything related to Jordan 76 Lake, are regulations related to Jordan Lake proposed to be more or less restrictive than what we already have? 77 78 Allison Reinert replied that the current UDO language is more restrictive and since the County cannot be more restrictive than 79 the state on this matter, the current language needs to be changed. 80 81 Randy Marshall followed-up by asking if the County could not be more restrictive whether it has to do with Jordan Lake or not. 82 83 Michael Harvey answered that what state law now says is that counties cannot enforce nutrient standards in the Jordan Lake 84 area without expressed permission from the state, and the state has removed all expressed permissions until the study is 85 done. Until the study is done, there cannot be nutrient regulatory standards enforced in the Jordan Lake river basin. 86 87 Allison Reinert said that the County still has rules for the Falls and Neuse river basins; those are not being touched in any 88 way. 89 90 Randy Marshall asked if the county has a split watershed. 91 92 Allison Reinert said yes. 93 94 Tony Blake echoed that this only applies to the Jordan Lake Watershed. 95 96 Allison Reinert continued going over the proposed amendment for section 6.14.6 in the UDO. This section has been 97 reorganized into 3 sections per recommendation of the County Attorney. The 3 sections are on new development, Falls Lake, 98 and Jordan Lake. There are still nutrient regulations in certain areas of the County, but they cannot be applied unanimously. 99 The section on new development applies to how the department will handle everything, regardless of the watershed. For 100 example, 1(C) regarding the handling of new stormwater systems designed to control the treatment of stormwater runoff 101 generated. This refers to the “10 percent rule,” which is the state standard for quantifying stormwater runoff pre-and-post-102 development; there cannot be more than a 10 percent increase, otherwise there must be a control measure to prevent 103 negative effects to downstream communities and ecosystems. 104 105