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27 (B) Additional Standards for Allowable Uses With Mitigation (1) Development proposals shall be submitted and reviewed in accordance with this Ordinance and all applicable State regulations. (2) Mitigation shall be provided in accordance with adopted State standards and shall be approved and inspected by the Erosion Control Officer or his/her designee. (C) Allowable Uses The following uses are allowed as a matter of right in stream buffers, subject to the General Standards established in Section 6.13.6(A), and any specific standards for the use: (1) Above-ground and buried utility lines for local distribution of electricity, telephone, data, and cable television service, as well as accessory and appurtenant apparatus such as poles, guy wires, transformers and switching boxes. (2) Individual or community wells. (3) Public water and sewer lines are permitted only as allowed by the Orange County Water and Sewer Policy, and may be located within stream buffers only to the extent necessary to cross the stream buffer as closely as possible to perpendicular. Individual or community wastewater disposal systems are not permitted in stream buffers. (4) Public and private streets, bridges, railroad rights-of-way, and other similar travel ways, provided that they enter and exit the buffer area as nearly perpendicular as possible. (5) Archaeological activities/projects conducted in accordance with all applicable County, State and Federal regulations. (6) Dam/reservoir maintenance activities. (7) Maintenance of existing outfalls provided they are managed to minimize the sediment, nutrients, and other pollution that convey to waterbodies. (8) Driveway crossings on single-family residential lots that disturb less than, or equal to, 25 linear feet or 2,500 square feet of stream buffer. (9) Greenways and/or hiking trails six feet in width composed of natural materials at least 30 feet from the top of bank of a stream or water body. (10) Historic preservation projects/activities. (11) Periodic maintenance of modified natural streams, such as canals, and a grassed travel way on one side of the surface water when alternative forms of maintenance access are not practical. (12) Public water and sewer lines that do not disturb over 40 linear feet. (13) Stream restoration and/or stream bank stabilization. (14) Wetland restoration, in accordance with all applicable County, State and Federal regulations. (15) Vegetation management, including but not limited to: (a) Emergency fire control measures provided that topography is restored; (b) Planting vegetation to enhance the riparian buffer; (c) Pruning forest vegetation provided that the health and function of the forest vegetation is not compromised and the pruning activity is conducted by hand;