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Public Hearing Ordinance An Ordinance Amending the Zoning Ordinance Of Orange County issioners of Orange County that the Orange Be it ordained by the Board of Comm County Zoning Ordinance is hereby amended as follows : Section 1 . ZONING ORDINANCE . Amend Article 22 definition for Stream Buffer to read as follows : Stream Buffer- -A stream buffer is an area of land adjacent to a streams or a FEMA-identified floodplains , whichever is greater , which , except as permitted in Article 6 . 23 . 7 of this Ordinance , must remain undisturbed in its natural state . Streams are sbew44 identified as by any of the following means : 1 ) shown as solid blue lines and or as broken blue lines on the USGS Quadrangle maps , 2 ) shown as a water feature in the Orange County Soil Survey , or 3 ) a field determination by County staff trained by the North Carolina Division of Water Quality ( NCDWQ? . The stream buffer shall extend around the perimeter of all water belies features including ponds , lakes and reservoirs if any portion of the stream buffer of a V 4tent stream touches the water bedy feature . Disputes pertaining to water feature decisions by County staff shall be filed directly to the NCDWQ . Section 2 . ZONING ORDINANCE . Amend Stream Buffers definition in Article 6 . 23 . 7definition to read the same as that in Article 22 as follows : Stream Buffer--A stream buffer is an area of land adjacent to a streams or a FEMA -identified floodplains , whichever is greater , which , except as permitted in Article 6 . 23 . 7 of this Ordinance , must remain undisturbed in its natural state . �e eea+at Streams are sheer identified as by any of the following means : 1 ) shown as solid blue lines and or as broken blue lines on the USGS Quadrangle maps , 2 ) shown as a water feature in the Orange County Soil Survey , or 3 ) a field determination by County staff trained by the North Carolina Division of Water Quality ( NCDWQJ . The stream buffer shall extend around the perimeter of all water be4ies features including ponds , lakes and reservoirs if any portion of the stream buffer of a stream touches the water belly feature . Disputes pertaining to water feature decisions by County staff shall be fled directly to the NCDWQ .