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Ordinance as Recommended by Administration An Ordinance Amending the Zoning Ordinance Of Orange County Be it ordained by the Board of Commissioners of Orange County that the Orange County Zoning Ordinance is hereby amended as follows: Section 1. Amend Article 22 definition for Stream Buffer to read as follows: Stream Buffer--A stream buffer is an area of land adjacent to a streams or a FEMA-identified floodplains, whichever is greater, which, except as permitted in Article 6.23.7 of this Ordinance, must remain undisturbed in its natural state. °D°'~°*a* Streams are identified as by any of the following means: 1) shown as solid blue lines a~ or as broken blue lines on the USGS Quadrangle maps, 2) shown as a water feature in the Orange County Soil Survey, or 3) a water feature identified by a field determination of County staff trained in surface water identification through the North Carolina Division of Water Quality (NCDWQZ. Stream buffers shall extend around the perimeter of all other water belies-features if any portion of the stream buffer touches the water bedy feature. Disputes pertaining to water feature identification decisions by County staff shall be filed directly to the NCDWQ. Stream buffers for Soil Survey streams shall be calculated using Method A only. Section 2. Amend Stream Buffers definition in Article 6.23.7definition to read as follows: a) Definition---See Article 22 Stream Buffer Section 3. Amend Article 22 to add a new definition for Water Feature to read as follows: Water Feature-A prominent aspect or characteristic of a geographic area that exhibits verifiable evidence of a presence of water in the soil. Examples of water features include, but are not limited to, perennial and intermittent streams, lakes, ponds, reservoirs, springs, artesian wells, irrigation wells, marshes or swamps, wetlands, and natural drainage ditches (non-ephemeral). Section 4: Amend Section 6.23.10 APPLICABILITY to react as follows: a) Existing Development For the purpose of determining compliance with or applicability of Article 6.23 of this Ordinance, existing development is defined as a residential or non-residential structure which: