Land Use Ordinance - June 2008 - City of Vineland

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City of Vineland Land Use Ordinance Amendment Design Standards for Stream Corridors STREAM CORRIDORS ARTICLE VII, Design Standards, is hereby amended to include the following design standards and regulations for development in the stream corridors of the City of Vineland. (New text is underlined). Stream Corridors A. Statement of purpose. The stream corridors of the City consist of rivers, streams, ponds, lakes, together with adjacent upland areas, including the floodplain and areas that support protective bands of vegetation that line the waters edge. The maintenance of a stream buffer as part of the corridor of a surface water body is needed to maintain water quality and to protect the stream environment from adverse development impacts. The purpose of these stream corridor regulations is to provide design standards that will: (1) Improve the management, care, and conservation of the water resources of the City of Vineland. (2) Protect significant ecological components of stream corridors such as floodplains, woodlands, steep slopes and wild life and plant life habitats within the stream corridors of the watershed; and prevent flood related damage to the communities of the watershed. (3) Complement existing State, regional, county and municipal stream corridor and flood hazard protection and management regulations and initiatives. (4) Coordinate the regulation of development within stream corridors in a manner complementary and consistent with the City’s other regulatory approaches regarding environmentally sensitive areas, including the City Flood Hazard Overlay zone. (5) Reduce the amount of nutrients, sediment, organic matter pesticides, and other harmful substances that reach watercourses, and subsurface and surface water bodies by using H:\VINE\00012\Plans\Ordinance Amendment Revised 05~28~08 ~ Design Standards.doc D-1
City of Vineland Land Use Ordinance Amendment Design Standards for Stream Corridors scientifically proven processes including filtration, deposition, absorption, adsorption, plant uptake, biodegradation, denitrification and by improving infiltration, encouraging sheet flow, and stabilizing concentrated flows. (6) Regulate the land use, siting and engineering of all development to be consistent with the intent and objectives of this ordinance and accepted conservation practices. (7) Conserve natural, scenic, and recreation areas within and adjacent to streams and water bodies. Support the water resource policies of the New Jersey State Development and Redevelopment Plan. (8) Advance the purposes of the New Jersey Municipal Land Use Law with particular regard to those purposes set forth pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:55D-2a,b,d,i, and j. B. Definitions. STREAM shall mean any pond or lake or perennial or intermittent waterway depicted on the most recent United States Geological Survey 7.5 minute topographic map quadrangles and/or the Cumberland County Soils Report prepared by the U.S. Soil Conservation Service. STREAM CORRIDOR shall mean the stream channel (the bed and banks of a stream that confine and conduct continuously or intermittently flowing water or the bed and banks of a pond or lake), the area within the one-hundred year flood line, and the stream corridor buffer. Where no 100- year flood line has been delineated, the stream corridor shall consist of the stream channel and stream corridor buffer area. STREAM CORRIDOR BUFFER shall mean an area extending a minimum of 75 feet and an average distance of 100 feet from the 100-year flood line or from the boundary of the Flood Hazard Overlay zone unless a greater distance is required for the specific stream by City regulation. If there is no 100-year flood line delineated, the distance shall be measured outward from the bank of the stream channel, lake, or pond. If slopes greater than ten (10) percent, or wetlands, or wetland transition areas abut the outer boundary of the stream corridor, the area of H:\VINE\00012\Plans\Ordinance Amendment Revised 05~28~08 ~ Design Standards.doc D-2
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