Planning Board - 080421 ORC Agenda Packet

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Article 10: Definitions 125 Section 10.1: Definitions State Agency Every department, agency, institution, public authority, board, commission, bureau, division, council, member of Council of State, or officer of the State government of the State of North Carolina. State Clearinghouse The clearinghouse agency established by the North Carolina Department of Administration under the North Carolina Environmental Policy Act. State Mandate The minimum Rules adopted by the Environmental Management Commission for application to North Carolina's water supply watersheds, as required by the Water Supply Watershed Protection Act. The purpose of the Act, as stated in its opening paragraph, is "... to protect and enhance the quality of the State's surface water supplies by establishing a cooperative program of water supply protection to be administered by local governments consistent with statewide management requirements established by the Environmental Management Commission (EMC)." (See related definition "Water supply watershed"). Stockyard / Livestock Market A facility where livestock are kept temporarily awaiting purchase and/or transport; such facilities may include enclosed pavilions, grandstands, paddocks, and stalls. Storage of Goods A land use where secured space, indoors or outdoors, is rented to tenants for the safeguarding and/or keeping of general merchandise, refrigerated goods, and other personal items on a short or long term basis. Stormwater, Stormwater Collection System290 Any conduit, pipe, channel, curb, or gutter for the primary purpose of transporting (not treating) F61R- effstormwater runoff . A stormwater collection system does include vegetated swales, swales stabilized with armoring or alternative methods where natural topography prevents the use of vegetated swales (subject to case-by-case review), curb outlet systems or pipes used to carry drainage underneath built- upon surfaces that are associated with development controlled by the provisions of 15A NCAC 2H 1003(c)(1). Stormwater, Stormwater Control Measure (SCM)291 A permanent structural device that is designed, constructed, and maintained to remove pollutants from stormwater runoff by promoting settling or filtration; or to mimic the natural hydrologic cycle by promoting infiltration, evapo-transpiration, post-filtration discharge, reuse of stormwater, or a combination thereof. A non-point source pollution to receiving waters in order to achieve water quality protection and water quantity limitation goals. (See also, Detention Pond and Engineered Stormwater . The term takes the place of what was previously originally referred to,and defined as a `Best Management Practice' or 'BMP'. (See also, Detention Pond, Engineered Stormwater Controls, Infiltration Systems) Stormwater, SCM Operation and Maintenance Agreement (OMA)292 A notarized and recorded agreement requiring the owning entity of a Stormwater Control Measure (SCM) to maintain, repair and, if necessary reconstruct the SCM in conformance with the approved Stormwater Management Plan (SMP). The SCM Operation and Maintenance Agreement shall include the required SCM Operation and Maintenance Plan (as "Attachment A") and shall meet the requirements of the most current version of the NCDEQ Stormwater Design Manual. 290 This definition generally conforms to 15A NCAC 02H.1002 (Definitions). 2e1 This definition has been revised for general conformance to 15A NCAC 02H.1002 (Definitions). 292 NEW DEFINITION—this definition has been added in order to support applicable stormwater section(s)of this Ordinance. Orange County, North Carolina—Unified Development Ordinance Page 10-55