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AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE CABARRUS COUNTY DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE TEXT2017-00007 BE IT ORDAINED that the Cabarrus Development Ordinance is hereby amended as follows: AMEND CHAPTER 4, OVERLAY DISTRICTS AND ZONES AS FOLLOWS: Section 4-8 Intention of Waterbody Buffer Zone The purpose of the Waterbody Buffer Zone is to provide protected, vegetated strips of land adjacent to streams, rivers, lakes, ponds, impoundments, wetlands. These buffers are retained in a natural, undisturbed, state, in an effort to avoid erosion problems and to reduce the velocity of overland flow, thus trapping sediment and soil eroded from cropland or land being developed to limit pollutants from entering the waterway. Section 4-9 Effect upon bona fide farms While North Carolina law exempts bona fide farms from local zoning regulations, the County strongly encourages the use of best management practices in farming. A waterbody buffer is one of these practices and is therefore consistent with North Carolina Sediment Control Law and thus is a 75% reimbursable North Carolina Agricultural Cost- Share Program. This program is administered through the Cabarrus Soil and Water District. The following text shall apply to all development or changing of conditions (e.g.,timbering, land clearing, etc.) adjacent to waterbodies as defined below. 4.9-1-Impoundments for agricultural purposes Impoundments used primarily for bona fide agricultural purposes, including animal watering, irrigation, or other agricultural uses shall not be subject to buffering requirements unless the waterbody is part of a natural drainage way(i.e., unless the waterbody is located on a perennial G.'ass A er cu'a stream); Section 4-10 Requirements of the Waterbody Buffer Zone 1. A minimum 50-foot buffer shall be established from the stream bank on all sides of perennial e-P Ck;rr I streams in addition to any lakes, ponds or impoundments located along, or on, those Ck;rr I Perennial streams include all rivers, streams, lakes, ponds or waterbodies shown on the USGS Quadrangle Maps as a solid blue line or identified in the Cabarrus County Geographic Information System. 2. A minimum 39;?`: foot s4ea;T buffer shall be established along the edge of fpe-R; the tpp-- h--,R14 „ .,I I Sid- . „f a ;R+ A-F Cl-a-r-r 2 tpeam-r @Rd any identified wetlands. Class P Attachment number 1 \n G-5 Page 129