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2. Primary open space <br />The following are considered primary open space areas and shall be included within the <br />open space, unless the Applicant demonstrates that this provision would constitute an <br />unusual hardship and is counter to the purposes of this chapter: <br />a. The 100 -year floodplain; <br />b. Stream buffer areas required by the County along each side of all perennial and <br />intermittent streams; <br />C. Slopes above 25 percent of at least 10,000 square feet contiguous area; <br />d. Jurisdictional wetlands under federal law (Section 404) that meet the definition <br />applied by the Army Corps of Engineers; <br />e. Habitat for federally - listed endangered or threatened species; <br />f. Archaeological sites, cemeteries and burial grounds; <br />g. State - designated Natural Heritage Sites; <br />h. Existing healthy native forests of at least 10 contiguous acres in size that are subject <br />to a forestry management plan approved by the NC Division of Forestry; and <br />Agricultural lands of at least 20 contiguous acres located in the Rural Tier containing <br />at least 25 percent prime farmland soils or other soils of statewide importance. <br />3. Secondary open space <br />The following are considered secondary open space areas and shall be included within the <br />required open space to the maximum extent feasible. <br />Attachment number 3 \n <br />G -4 Page 378 <br />