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H. Building and Building Regulations Ordinance <br />1. Cabarrus County has adopted a Building and Building Regulations Ordinance that <br />incorporates the North Carolina State Building Code. The ordinance provides that any <br />revisions, amendments, or additions to the state code are automatically included in the <br />Cabarrus County ordinance. The county ordinance has developed additional standards for <br />safety and sanitation as to supplement the state code. <br />2. The County enforces the ordinance within the unincorporated areas of the County and <br />also has the authority to enforce the code in any municipality, which requests by <br />resolution that the County does so within its corporate limits. Currently, Cabarrus County <br />enforces the building code within all municipal jurisdictions within the county and within <br />the corporate limits of Kannapolis that lie within Rowan County. <br />I. Water Supply Watershed Protection Overlay District <br />1. The Water Supply Watershed Act of 1989 instituted a statewide program to protect <br />drinking water supply watersheds from inappropriate development. The intent of the <br />program was to protect the quality of surface water supplies from non -point source <br />pollution, and to minimize stormwater runoff by regulating development densities and the <br />amount of built -upon area within the critical and protected areas of affected watersheds. <br />Certain land uses are also prohibited within protected water supply watersheds. <br />2. The County Zoning Ordinance includes the Water Supply Watershed Protection <br />Overlay District. The county enforces the ordinance within the unincorporated areas of <br />the county and also has the authority to enforce the code in any municipality, which <br />requests by resolution that the County does so. Currently, Cabarrus County enforces the <br />water supply watershed protection ordinance within the planning jurisdiction of the <br />Towns of Mount Pleasant, Harrisburg, and Midland. <br />3. The overlay district applies within the areas designated by the North Carolina <br />Environmental Management Commission as the critical or protected area of a surface <br />water supply watershed and as shown on the official watershed map for Cabarrus County. <br />The Yadkin — PeeDee basin includes all of Cabarrus County and has both watershed I1 <br />and IV areas. Within those watershed areas classified watershed lI, a two acre lot can <br />only have 6% coverage of the site; the same site in a watershed IV area can have up to 24 <br />% coverage of the site. Coverage includes all structures and paved areas. <br />4. The ordinance provides for the continuation of existing uses and the reconstruction of <br />buildings and built -upon areas. Certain types of uses are also prohibited. Within the <br />critical and protected areas, the storage of toxic and hazardous materials (unless a spill <br />containment plan is implemented) is prohibited. Landfills and sites for land application of <br />sludge /residuals or petroleum- contaminated soils are prohibited in the critical area. <br />5. A minimum 50' vegetative buffer is required along each side of all perennial waters <br />and no new development is allowed in the buffer area except for water dependent <br />Annex D Evaluation of County Policy D -16 December 2009 <br />and Ordinances <br />Attachment number 13 <br />F -6 Page 164 <br />