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Article 3 Zoning Districts
3-72 RCOD-1, Resource Conservation Overlay District
Wake County Unified Development Code
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(2)
protect the water quality in these impoundments by requiring vegetated buffer areas
around them as well as along drainageways leading to them; and
(3)
be applied within special watersheds and such other significant physical and
biological areas and habitats as the Wake County Board of Commissioners deems
appropriate.
(B)
Special water impoundments provide significant wildlife or plant life habitats, possess
characteristics unique to Wake County, public recreation, or offer potentials for future
public recreation.
3-72-2 Allowed Uses
Principal uses are allowed in the RCOD-1 overlay district in accordance with the use regulations of
the underlying base zoning district, except that location of such uses are restricted as required by the
requirements of this section.
3-72-3 Other District-Specific Regulations
The standards of both the RCOD-1 overlay district and the underlying district apply. Where the
standards of the overlay district and the underlying district differ, the more restrictive standards
control. All limits of disturbance within watershed buffers apply to each side of the water body.
(A)
100-foot-wide special water impoundment buffers must be maintained around special water
impoundments. Special water impoundment buffers must be measured perpendicular to the
normal pool shoreline of the special water impoundment, and must extend 100 feet from
the normal pool shoreline of the special water impoundment, inside the watershed
draining into that impoundment.
(B)
50-foot-wide drainageway buffers must be maintained along each side of a stream, and 25-
foot wide drainageway buffers must be maintained along each side of an upper watershed
drainageway, up to a point where less than 5 acres are drained by such upper watershed
drainageway. In order to determine the amount of land drained by an upper watershed
drainageway or a stream, USGS or Wake County topographic maps may be used.
(C)
50-foot-wide water impoundment buffers must be maintained around water impoundments
located on a stream, and 25-foot-wide water impoundment buffers must be maintained
around water impoundments located on an upper watershed drainageway.
(D)
Drainageway buffers, water impoundment buffers, and special water impoundment buffers
must be designated on lots created after November 19, 1986. Vegetation within such
buffers must remain undisturbed except as may be necessary to accommodate any of the
following uses:
(1)
boat docks, ramps, piers, or similar structures;
(2)
greenways, pedestrian paths, path shelters and benches, and related recreational uses;
(3)
reconstruction, rehabilitation, or restoration of structures listed on the National
Register of Historic Places;
(4)
drainage facilities or utilities;
(5)
roads, provided they cross the buffer at a horizontal angle of at least 60 degrees;