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Cabarrus county Zoning Ordinance <br />Chapter 4- Overlay Districts and Zones <br />area requirement under the high density option; or that results in a relaxation, by a factor of up <br />to ten (10) percent, of any management requirement under the low density option. <br />Protected Area -The area adjoining and upstream of the critical area of WS -IV watersheds. The <br />boundaries of the protected area are defined as within five miles of and draining to the normal <br />pool elevation of the reservoir or to the ridgeline of the watershed; or within 10 miles upstream <br />and draining to the intake located directly in the stream or river or to the ridgeline of the <br />watershed. <br />Variance -A permission to develop or use property granted by the Cabarr <br />Zoning Commission, acting as Board of Adjustment, relaxing or waiving a <br />watershed management requirement adopted by the Fnvironmeran <br />that is incorporated into this ordinance. <br />Watershed -The entire land area contributing surface d <br />supply intake.) <br />4 -7.4 Word Interpretation <br />For the purpose of this Watershed Overla <br />Section <br />Words in the present tense i <br />Words used in the singul <br />number include the si r <br />otherwise. <br />The word "perso eludes <br />as an individual. <br />The word "' ture' <br />The word "lo incl <br />The �'sha 's a s <br />rty Planning and <br />supply <br />ent Commission <br />(e.g, the water <br />rpreted as follows: <br />'end words used in the plural <br />I construction of the wording indicates <br />association, corporation, trust, and company as well <br />elude t7%word "building." <br />the words, "plot," "parcel," or "tract." <br />datory and not merely directory. <br />61 atory and not merely directory, <br />The purpose ofIWWaterbody Buffer Zone is to provide protected, vegetated strips of land <br />adjacent to streams, rivers, lakes, ponds, impoundments, or wetlands. These buffers are <br />retained in a natural, undisturbed, state, in an effort to avoid erosion problems and to reduce <br />the velocity of overland flow, thus trapping sediment and soil eroded from cropland or land <br />being developed to limit pollutants from entering the waterway. <br />Section 4 -9 Effect upon bona fide farms <br />Amended 8/17/2015 <br />Chapter Page 10 of 29 <br />G - 4 <br />Attachment number 1 \n <br />Page 412 <br />