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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br />MEETING AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: September 20, 2005 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 5_~ <br />SUBJECT: Revisions to the Flood Damage Prevention Ordinance <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) No <br />ATTACHMENT (S): <br />1. Proposed Ordinance Revisions <br />2, Minutes from the May 23, 2005 <br />Quarterly Public Hearing <br />3. Minutes from the July 13, 200,5 and <br />August 3, 2005 Planning Board <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Craig N. Benedict, Director, ext 2592 <br />Glenn Bowles, Planner II, ext 2577 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To receive the Administration's recommendation and Planning Board comments <br />concerning the proposed revisions to the Flood Damage Prevention Ordinance, to close the <br />public hearing and to make a decision, <br />BACKGROUND: The form and content of this ordinance is the same as presented to the <br />Board of Commissioners of their Quarterly Public Hearing (QPH), except for the following items <br />which were added because of comments at the QPH and from the Planning Board review and <br />recommendation: <br />1. Section 42-97 General Standards 12, is revised to include not only PCBs and delete any <br />petroleum product, but also add to "Gasoline" "and other petroleum products" and also <br />list Polychlorinated biphen,yls (PCBs), Polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), <br />Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), and "any priority pollutants listed in Table 1 of <br />Section 307 of the Clean Water Act (PL 92-500), as amended, <br />2, Section 42-92 Special Standards; Subsection 1 is revised to state, "New Construction <br />within the SFHA shall be prohibited. Substantial improvement of an.y existing residential <br />structure ,,,". Subsection 2 is revised to state, "New Construction within the SFHA shall <br />be prohibited. Substantial improvement of an,y existing commercial, industrial, or other <br />non-residential structure ..."and similarly in subsection 3. <br />3. Sec. 42-32 (b) wording changes, <br />4, Sec. 42-33 moved forward and bolded for emphasis, <br />5. Accessory Building definition -added additional examples, <br />B. Areas of Shallow Flooding -differentiate between the AO and AH zones, <br />7, Floodplain definition -provide better differentiation between the various `flood"terms, <br />8. Post-FIRM/Pre-FIRM wording, <br />9, Riverine definition refined, <br />10, Salvage yard definition refined, <br />