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~, ~: . 1. WATER AND SEWER POLICY t The presentation was made by Planning Director Marvin Collins. He indicated that on October 10, 1988, a public hearing was conducted for the purpose of receiving citizen comment on the proposed policy. At the conclusion of the comments, the Board of Commissioners continued the public hearing until November 28, allowing two additional weeks beyond October 10 for the receipt of comments, In the two weeks following the October LO public hearing, comments ,were subsequently received from the Economic Development Commission, the Orange Water and Sewer Authority and, most recently, from the Town of Carrboro. When the Policy was presented in October it was organized around five goal statements that 'involved water supply, sewage disposal, urban development patterns, the County's involvement in the provision of water and sewer services and also the basis on which the County would become involved financially. Based on the comments received to date revisions have been made to the proposed policy, a revisions are underlined in the draft copy (copy attachment to these minutes)~1°~~rincipal among the revisions is the merging of Goals 4 and 5 into a single goal - County involvement. The revision was warranted because both goals address the financial involvement of the County in the provision of water/sewer services and facilities, At its November 15, 1988 meeting, the Board of Commissioners authorized ..,` for inclusion in the policy proposals of the County Attorney which clarified the basis on which public water and sewer extensions would be permitted outside of Urban and Transition Areas as designated on the Comprehensive Plan. The recommendations to the Board of Commissioners on November 15 also included substantial revision to the extension policy. To summarize the extension policies, we do foresee water and sewer services within the Transition and Urban Areas of the County and would like to encourage water and sewer services onlq in those areas. Where there is a public health emergency such as a subdivision with failing septic systems, where there is a proposed County facility which is noted in the policy as an essential public service such as a school, or where the failure to provide public water and sewer would result in a citizen's inability to develop their property or make reasonable use of that property, public water and sewer services would be allowed outside of transition or urban areas, The only exceptions to that general rule would be in the case of water quality critical areas that are designated around existing and proposed reservoirs and also within the Rural Buffer area of the County which is a part of the Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan and surrounds Chapel Hill and Carrboro. Such extensions would be allowed within those two areas but the lines would be sized to serve the situation at hand. For example, if a school site were proposed in the Rural Buffer, public water and sewer lines could be extended to that school but the lines would be sized to serve only the school. Furthermore, there would be no further connections primarily because of the line sizing limitations, In areas outside of the Rural Buffer or outside a Water Quality Critical Area the line could be sized in accordance with the policies of the