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12 <br /> 1 Don Sever with Bowman Civil Engineers said there are 1.9 acres of wetlands and there <br /> 2 15.3 total acres of riparian buffers that surround the wetlands and the streams that bisect the <br /> 3 property. Together that equals 40% of the common open space. He said there is also a <br /> 4 development buffer around the perimeter of the property, which varies from a 20-foot width to a <br /> 5 50-foot width and altogether totals 5.1 acres. He said there is a property line buffer, which runs <br /> 6 adjacent to the development buffer and is also 5 acres. <br /> 7 Taylor Perschau offered that there are minimum required stream buffers, floodplain buffers <br /> 8 and water body buffers if it's hydrologically connected. <br /> 9 The applicant passed out the following diagram to the Board to aid in the explanation. <br /> mom. ma <br /> PROPERTY <br /> SECONDARY TREE PROTECTION 4REA-' <br /> 10 <br /> 11 Referring to the above handout from the applicant, Taylor Perschau said there's a <br /> 12 floodplain buffer and a stream buffer on the northern portion of the property. There is also a <br /> 13 required stream buffer that runs through the middle of the property. Additionally, there is a phase <br /> 14 line where the applicant is proposing a phase one to be developed, as well as a phase two. She <br /> 15 said the diagonal hash represents either a stream buffer or a floodplain buffer and the required <br /> 16 buffers for stream and floodplain are a minimum of 65 and a maximum of 80, as detailed in the <br /> 17 ordinance. So that would be required regardless. Orange County buffers, both that 65 and 80 <br /> 18 exceed the state's 50-foot regulated buffer. She explained that the development buffer that Don <br />