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1. Cabarrus County has adopted a Building and Building Regulations Ordinance that incorporates the North Carolina State Building Code. The ordinance provides that any revisions, amendments, or additions to the state code are automatically included in the Cabarrus County ordinance. The county ordinance has developed additional standards for safety and sanitation as to supplement the state code. 2. The County enforces the ordinance within the unincorporated areas of the County and also has the authority to enforce the code in any municipahty, which requests by resolution that the County do so within its corporate hmits. Currently, Cabarms County enforces the building code witkin all municipal jurisdictions within the county and within the corporate 1/mits of Karmapolis that lie within Rowan County.- I. Water Supply Watershed Protection Overlay District 1. The Water Supply Watershed Act of 1989 instituted a statewide program to protect drinking water supply watersheds from inappropriate develoPment. The intent of the program was to protect the quality of surface water supplies from non-point source pollution, and to rninimize stormwater runoffby regulating development densities and the amount of built-upon ' area within the critical and protected areas Of affected watersheds. Certain iand uses are also prohibited within protected water supplY watersheds. 2. The County Zoning Ordinance includes the Water Supply Watershed Protection Overlay District. The county enforCes the ordinance within the unincorporated areas of the county and also has the authority to enforce the code in any municipality, which requests by resolution that the County do so. Currently, Cabarrus County enforces the water supply watershed protection ordinance within the planning jurisdiction of the Towns of Mount Pleasant, Harrisburg, and Midland. 3. The overlay district applies within the areas designated by the North Carolina Environmental Management Commission as the critical or protected area of a surface water supply watershed and as shown on the official watershed map for Cabarrus County. The Yadkin- PeeDee basin includes all of Cabarrus County and has both watershed lI and IV areas. Within those watershed areas classified watershed II, a two acre lot can only have 6% coverage of the site; the same site in a watershed IV area can have up to 24 % coverage of the site. Coverage includes all structures and paved areas. 4. The ordinance provides for the continuation of existing uses and the reconstruction of buildings and built-upon areas. Certain types of uses are also prohibited. Within the critical and protected areas, the storage of toxic and hazardous materials (unless a.spill containment plan is implemented) is prohibited. Landfills and sites for land application of sludge/residuals or petroleum-contaminated soils are prohibited in the critical area. 5. A mira'mum 50' vegetative buffer is required along each side of all perennial waters and no new development is allowed in the buffer area except for water dependent structures and public projects such as road crossings and greenways where no practicable alternative exists. J. Public Water and Sewer Extension Policies. Water and sewer services within Cabarrus County are provided by Water and Sewer Authority of Cabarrus County. WSACC does not Draft Annex D v.3.1 D-13 1 July2002