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A vote on a request by Nicolas Robinson, on behalf of NNP-Briar Chapel, LLC, to approve a Compact Community Ordinance ("CCO") Waiver to Ratify Previously Installed Drainage Structures and Minimal Grading encroachments in riparian buffers near the Briar Chapel Waste Water Treatment Plant.
ABSTRACT
Action Requested:
Vote to approve a request by Nicolas Robinson, on behalf of NNP-Briar Chapel, LLC, for a Compact Community Ordinance ("CCO") Waiver to Ratify Previously Installed Drainage Structures and Minimal Grading encroachments in riparian buffers near the Briar Chapel Waste Water Treatment Plant.
Introduction & Background:
Per the request letter NNP-Briar Chapel installed two storm drain pipes ten years ago, in 2005, in accordance with NCDENR standards, prior to delegation of the erosion control process to Chatham County. The installation of the storm drain pipes encroach into the 10' no-build zone of one riparian buffer and into both the no-build zone and buffer area of the other riparian buffer locations.
Existing buffer locations were depicted in the 2005 Briar Chapel approved concept plan and reconfirmed with the associated 2012 and 2014 Conditional Use Permit revisions. The buffers are adjacent to a proposed roadway on the Master Plan, which is currently being used as an unpaved access road to the Briar Chapel Waste Water Plant.
NNP-Briar Chapel desires to formalize this roadway with approvals from NCDOT, so the future roadway may be added to the state-maintained system.
Discussion & Analysis:
The Chatham County Compact Communities Ordinance states the following:
Section 9.1 Riparian Buffers
In all residential, commercial, and civic areas in each compact community, vegetative buffers of the following widths shall be permanently protected along each side of the following streams:
? At least one hundred (100) feet along all perennial streams;
? At least fifty (50) feet along all intermittent streams;
? At least fifty (50)...
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