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Where only a portion of a proposed building lot is subject to flooding, such lot may be approved only if there will be available for building, a usable lot area of not less than 1,500 square feel The usable lot area shall be detei--tined by deducting from the total lot area the area of the setback required by an applicable zoning district regulation and any remaining area of the lot lying below the building restriction flood line. 4 During the construction, preparation, arrangemen~ and installation of subdivision improvements, and facilities in subdivisions located at or along stream bed, the developer shall maintain the stream bed of each stream, creek, or backwash channel contiguous to the subdivision in an unobstructmt state. The developer shall also remove from the channel and banks of the stream all debris, logs, timber, junk and other accumulations of a nature that would, in time of flood clog or dam the passage of waters in their downstream course. Installation of appropriately sized storm water drains, culverts or bridges shall not be construed as obstructions in the streams. SECTION 4.6 RIVER STREAM BUFFER All subdivisions containing or located adjacent to all rivers or streams shown on USGS Quadrangle Maps as a solid blue line shall be subject to all of the regulations set forth in Chapter 4, Part li (River/Stream Overlay Zone) in the Cabarrus County Zoning Ordinance. SECTION 4.7 SEDIMENTATION POLLUTION CONTROL Upon approval of the preliminary plat the Planning and Zoning staff shall notify the North Carolina Department of Environmental Health and Natural Resources of such approval. All applicable mcluirements of the North Carolina Sedimentation Pollution Control Act~ General Statute l13A as amended shall be complied with by the developer. The subdivider is required to submit to the Planning and Zoning staff evidence-of a State approved erosion and sedimentation control plan before any construction or grading commences, else preliminary plat is null and void and the developer will be charged with violating a county ordinance and be subject to whatever legal action may be available. Subdivisions which will occur within the Urban Growth Areas of the City of Concord, the City of Kannapolis, or the Town of Harrisburg, as defined by the MDR zoning district and all those districts of higher density, shall meet the specifications and standards set forth in the respective city's subdivision ordinances where they per,in to sedimentation and erosion control, or where no such requirements exist they shall meet state specifications. 23