Secondary and Cumulative Impacts Master Management Plan - 2014

Article 3 Zoning Districts 3-72 RCOD-1, Resource Conservation Overlay District

(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;

Wake County Unified Development Code 3-47