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Section 1.7.1.1 Purpose, Applicability, Exceptions and Effect (a) Purpose. The purpose of a Watershed Protection Plan shall be to apply the environmental and flood control standards contained in Chapter 5 to a conceptual development design. A Watershed Protection Plan assures that such standards will be met at the time of development of the property by establishing terms and conditions for approval of applications for plats and Site Preparation Permits. For purposes of this Code, an Aquifer Protection Plan and a Site Plan for land in the San Marcos River Corridor which was under prior regulations for or in association with a plat application are Watershed Protection Plans. (b) Applicability. Except as provided in subsections (c) or (d), approval of a Watershed Protection Plan is required within the City limits or within the City's extraterritorial jurisdiction prior to approval of a plat application or, for developments where a plat already has been approved for the property, prior to approval of a Site Preparation Permit. A Watershed Protection Plan shall include all land contiguous to and in the same ownership with the land subject to the plat application or Site Preparation Permit, except a remainder tract. moo. a tmat , Yufee a vi lot f w-hieh division not o oa ` t .... 1 approval of ., u , �i vry �� uva uau� vavv� w "p� Chapter development plat tinder- AFfiele 6 of this 1 it li. (dc) Exceptions. A Watershed Protection Plan is not required for any land that is expressly exempted from the environmental standards contained in Chapter 5, Articles 1 -4 of the Land Development Code. (ed) Effect. Approval of a Watershed Protection Plan entitles the applicant to seek approval of a Cluster Development Plan, plat application or Site Preparation Permit, as the case may be. SECTION 5. Chapter 1, Development Procedures, Article 7, Watershed Protection Plans, Division 1, Approval and Application Process; Appeals, Section 1.7.1.4, Processing of Application and Decision, Subsection (a), Decision by Type of Watershed Protection Plan, is amended to read as follows: Section 1.7.1.4 Processing of Application and Decision (a) Decision by Type of Watershed Protection Plan. An application for approval of a Watershed Protection Plan, Phase 1 and Phase 2, initially shall be decided by the Engineering Director, except where the application is accompanied by any of the following requests, in which case the application shall be construed as an application for a Qualified Watershed Protection Plan, which shall be decided by the Planning and Zoning Commission following a recommendation by the City Engineer: