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r <br />ORANGE COUNTY ~ <br />BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br />AND <br />PLANNING BOARD . <br />PUBLIC HEARING AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: May 29, 2001 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 6 c <br />SUBJECT: Watershed Best Management Practice Amendment <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning ~ Inspections PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) YES <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Proposed Amendments Craig Benedict, Director, Ext. 2592 <br />Robert P. Davis, Planner III, Ext. 2580 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsi~orough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 9G8~501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To receive citizen comment on proposed amendments to the Orange County <br />Zoning Ordinance to clarify that Best Management Practices (BMP's) are not permitted to allow <br />an increase in impervious surface coverage for projects. <br />BACKGROUND: <br />Both the Stormwater Management Program for Lands within the Neuse River Basin and the <br />Orange County Zoning Ordinance have requirements for Best Management Practices. The <br />BMP's in both cases are. intended to reduce the negative environmental effects ofi development <br />on the streams and water. supplies within North Carolina. The slight variation in the definition of <br />the term Best Management Practice in the two ordinances is highlighted in italics below: <br />Zoning Ordinance Definition: A structural or non-structural management-based practice <br />used singularly or in combination to reduce non-point source pollution to receiving waters in <br />order to achieve water quality protection goals. (See also, Detention Pond and Engineered <br />Stramwater Controls) (Unless otherwise specified, "BMP", when used in this Ordinance, <br />refers to structural BMP's.) <br />Neuse River Basin Definition: A structural or non-structural management-based practice <br />used singularly or in combination to reduce non-paint source inputs to receiving waters in <br />order to achieve water quality protection goals. <br />The Neuse River Basin regulations specify that BMP's shall be implemented to reduce negative <br />inputs (i.e. nitrogen) into the streams. The zoning ordinance specifies that BMP's cannot be <br />used to satisfy watershed requirements for residential development and most non-residential <br />developments. The zoning ordinance language is intended to prohibit use of manmade <br />G:roberdmay2001 publichearing/abstractBMP <br />