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15 <br />October 12, 2009 Regular Meeting <br />Approved: November 9, 2009 <br />Page 1 I of 39 <br />he believed only the light blue areas on the map had such services. Commissioner Gering said <br />then anyone wanting to develop in the orange areas would have to get awater/sewer contract <br />with the Town, and at what stage in the process would the Town consider granting that. Mr. <br />Benedict said on day one. He said if a developer came forward with a proposal then the Town <br />would be brought in as a utility provider, and the Town's standards would be engineered into the <br />project. <br />Commissioner Gering said the Town Board was use to using water and sewer services as a <br />strong lever for negotiating all aspects of a proposed development, and wondered how that <br />negotiation leverage would be affected by the Town's role in the approval process. Mr. Benedict <br />said the Town could say no to a development in its ETJ, in the blue areas, or in the orange areas. <br />He said there was no mandate in the agreement that the Town would have to provide water and <br />sewer to those areas, noting those areas had been pulled in from the large green water/sewer <br />boundary agreement map when it was thought that the Town could serve a larger area. Mr. <br />Benedict said that area would eventually be compressed to a more achievable water allocation <br />standard. <br />7:_56:38 PIS-1 Commissioner Gering said then the only difference as far as the Town was <br />concerned was that the land use rules would be in the County's hands rather than the Town's, <br />and all the other discussions including special conditions would remain as is. Mr. Benedict said <br />the process would be better than with The Preserve and was one reason they were moving <br />towards this agreement, noting he did not believe they had had a good process at that time. He <br />said the Interlocal Agreement would set out the steps of who provided what, and the only <br />difference he saw was that the development review would be by the Orange County Planning <br />staff and approved by the County Commissioners, and they did that because it would give them <br />some urban planning like they were doing in small sections of Efland. Mr. Benedict said one <br />important difference between the way it was now and the way it would be in the future was that <br />there would be jointly agreed upon land uses and intensities, and jointly agreed upon zoning <br />regulations that would implement those land uses and intensities. <br />Ms. Hauth asked at what point Mr. Benedict saw the Town having to either commit or not <br />commit water and sewer in order for a project to come in for review under the County. .She <br />asked would the Town have to commit at the time the application was deemed complete, or at <br />the time that the County Commissioners made its decision. Ms. Hauth said that had been the <br />problem in the past. Mr. Benedict said it would be before the Commissioners gave approval. He <br />said the County had a preliminary review process to determine if a project was feasible as <br />proposed, and if intensity was proposed that required public water and sewer, then that would <br />need to be approved early in the process. <br />7:59:08 .PM Commissioner Lloyd said she had served on the Water Sewer Boundary <br />Committee and they had spent a large amount of time in getting the rural buffer in place, and <br />they had not discussed going towards Efland. She said the Town Manager had done a water <br />capacity study to identify how much was available for certain developments proposed for the <br />future, so they could not exceed that without having to move to phase two of the reservoir. <br />Commissioner Lloyd said that was pretty much set, and asked Commissioner Hallman, who had <br />served on the Strategic Growth Plan Committee, if what was proposed went beyond that. <br />11 <br />