Orange County NC Website
Browse       Search
<br />Objective NA-4: <br />Encourage adequate stormwater runoff controls in existing developed areas and require <br />these controls for new subdivisions to protect sensitive downstream aquatic habitat. <br /> <br />Comments: <br />Objective NA-5: <br />Prohibit development that would cause adverse impacts on highly significant natural areas <br />and wildlife habitat. <br /> <br />Comments: <br />Goal 8: Networks of protected natural, cultural and agricultural lands. <br />Comments: <br />Objective NA-10: <br />Require that all major subdivisions (defined as having more than 5 lots according to the <br />Orange County Unified Development Ordinance) include within their boundaries open <br />space suitable for low-impact recreation and wildlife habitat. <br /> <br />Comments: <br />Objective NA-13: <br />Promote clustering of residential development and dedication of large areas of undisturbed <br />land for low-impact recreational use by residents and for wildlife habitat. Where feasible, <br />these areas should be contiguous to neighboring tracts of undisturbed land. <br /> <br />Comments: <br />Objective NA-15: <br />Protect land in and around biologically significant areas, and connections between these <br />areas, to allow for the maintenance of native wildlife and plant populations and their <br />functional relationships. <br /> <br />Comments: <br />Objective NA-17: <br />Maintain and protect land that contains valuable productive resources, such as prime <br />farmland and prime forestland, by directing incompatible development away from these <br />areas. <br /> <br />Comments: <br />n/a <br />n/a <br />n/a <br />n/a <br />n/a <br />n/a <br />47