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Public Hearing Ordinance <br />Section 4: Amend Detailed Table of Contents Section 6.24 to read as follows: <br />Stream Buffers Outside of Watershed Protection Overlay Districts <br />Section 5: Amend new Section 6.24 to include a minimum stream buffer for areas <br />outside of Orange County Watershed Protection Overlay Districts to read <br />as follows: <br />In areas not identifi®d on the Official Zoning Atlas as Watershed <br />Protection Overlay Districts, a stream buffer a minimum of 30 feet in <br />width shall be established along both sides of perennial streams and <br />intermittent streams, or along the FEMA identified floodplains, <br />whichever is greater. Perennial streams are those streams shown as <br />solid blue lines, and intermittent streams are those streams shown <br />as broken blue lines on the USGS Quadrangle maps for Orange <br />County. <br />Section 5: Amend Detailed Table of Contents Section 6.25 to read as follows: <br />Minimum Usable Lot Area for Lots on Ground Absorption <br />Wastewater Systems <br />Section 7: Amend the new Section 5.25 to set minimum usable lot area when Ground <br />Absorption Wastewater Systems are used to read as follows: <br />The usable lot for parcels between 40,000 square feet and <br />1.99 acres in size shall be either 30,000 square feet or 40°~ of the <br />total zoning lot, whichever is greater. Zoning lots two acres and <br />greater shall have a minimum usable lot area of at least 40,000 <br />square feet. <br />Section 8: This ordinance shall be effective upon its adoption. <br />(Signature) <br />Clerk, Board of County Commissioners <br />(Signature) <br />Chair, Orange County Commissioners <br />14 <br />Date and Seal <br />