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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br />MEETING AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: October 3, 2005 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. <br />SUBJECT: Revisions to the Flood Damage Prevention Ordinance <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning and Inspections 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, 2005 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 what was <br />presented fo the Board of Commissioners at their Quarterly Public Hearing (QPH), except <br />for the following items which were added because of comments at the QPH and from the <br />Planning Board review and recommendation: <br />1. Section 42-91 General Standards 12. is revised to include not only PCBs and <br />delete any petroleum product, but also add to "Gasoline" "and other petroleum <br />products" and also list Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), Polynuclear aromatic <br />hydrocarbons (PAHs), Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), and "any priority <br />pollutants listed in Table 1 of Section 307 of the Clean Water Act (PL 92-500), as <br />amended. <br />2. Section 42-92 Special Standards; Subsection 1 is revised to state, "New <br />Construction within the SFHA shall be prohibited. Substantial improvement of any <br />existing residential structure ... ". Subsection 2 is revised to state, "New <br />Construction within the SFHA shall be prohibited. Substantial improvement of any <br />existing commercial, industrial, or other non-residential structure ..."and similarly <br />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 />6. Areas of Shallow Flooding -differentiate between the AO and AH zones, <br />7. Floodplain definition -provide better differentiation between the various "flood" <br />terms, <br />