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Article 6: Development Standards 76 <br /> Section 6.15: Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Contro1201 F <br /> (f) To protect and maintain the existing habitat of fish and wildlife. <br /> (g) To prevent damage from flooding while recognizing that natural <br /> fluctuations in water levels are beneficial. <br /> (h) To protect the absorptive, purifying and retentive functions of the natural <br /> systems existing in the University Lake, Cane Creek, and Upper Eno <br /> Watersheds area. <br /> (i) To ensure the attainment of these objectives by requiring the approval <br /> and implementation of Sedimentation and Erosion Control Planserosion <br /> and sedimentation control plans203 for all activities which may adversely <br /> affect the University Lake, Cane Creek, and Upper Eno Watersheds. <br /> (j) To provide and enforce design and performance standards for control of <br /> post-development erosion and sedimentation in order to preserve the <br /> characteristics that existed in the University Lake, Cane Creek, and <br /> Upper Eno Watersheds Area prior to development. <br /> 6.15.2 Applicability <br /> (A) The SG4204-erosion and sedimentation control provisions contained herein shall apply <br /> within Orange County, including the municipalities of Carrboro, Hillsborough, and the <br /> portion of Mebane within Orange County, but excluding the municipal boundaries and <br /> planning extraterritorial limits of Chapel Hill. <br /> (B) It shall be unlawful, within the jurisdiction of this Section, to engage in land-disturbing <br /> activity, except as provided herein, without first obtaining a permit Land Disturbing Permit <br /> LDP 205 as required by this Section and without complying with the conditions of the <br /> issuance of said pe.F 4QP. <br /> (C) Any person engaged in land-disturbing activities who fails to file a plaeapply for an <br /> LDP206 in accordance with this Ordinance, or who conducts a land-disturbing activity <br /> except in accordance with provisions of an approved LDP shall be deemed in <br /> violation of this Ordinance. <br /> 6.15.3 Erosion Control Standards <br /> (A) Orange County Erosion Contro1201 Standards <br /> Requirements, standards, and specifications for eFOSien ^^n+r^' plaRserosion and <br /> sedimentation control plans208 and erosion control techniques, measures, and devices <br /> are contained in the most <br /> current version of the North Carolina Erosion and Sediment Control Planning and Design <br /> 203 Consistent use of"erosion and sedimentation control plans". <br /> 204 Deleted "soil". <br /> los"Land Disturbing Permit" is correctly noted to match the Definitions section of this Ordinance and the <br /> appropriate acronym for Land Disturbing Permit(LDP) is included—NOTE: "Land Disturbing Permit"and"LDP" <br /> are integrated through the remainder of Section 6.15, where applicable. <br /> 206 Clarification of requirements. <br /> 201 Clarification that this sub-section is specific to"Orange County erosion control standards" <br /> 208 Consistent use of"erosion and sedimentation control plan"as defined in 15A NCAC 02H.1002(Definitions)— <br /> NOTE: "erosion and sedimentation control plan"is integrated through the remainder of Section 6.15, where <br /> applicable. <br /> Orange County, North Carolina—Unified Development Ordinance Page 6-115 <br />