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on January 3, 1989. Planning Board member Chris Best asked if the Planning Staff was recommending a thirty-day extension. Collins responded that the Staff would like _,_, to recognize the concerns of OWASA and the Economic Development Commission in terms of being able to provide comments on this policy. If the additional thirty-day period is allowed, the Planning Board could cansider the additional comments at its Long Range Planning Meeting in January and provide a recommendation to the Board of Commissioners at their first meeting in February. In answer to a question from Best, Collins responded that OWASA and EDC would provide such comments to the Board of Commissioners as well as the County Manager with the Planning Staff providing Collins noted that at the November 15 meeting, Commissioner Marshall asked to have something included in the policy which addressed the carrying capacity of treatment facilities as well as discharge points of those facilities. The definition "Assured of installation" means that the utility provider to whose system a development is to be connected must have reviewed and approved preliminary plans fox a project and proposed water and sewer lines. As a part of that review process, they would also have to comment on the adequacy of the existing system to which the connections are made and on the capacity of the existing treatment facilities. To address Ms. Marshall's concern, the carrying capacity of the discharge stream or discharge paint has been added. It has also been added that the approval by the municipality, private association, or water or sewer authority shall contain a certification that service to the development project is authorized by any water management plan and discharge permit in effect at the time of approval. This was added to the policy in order to address the Eno River Management Plan under which the County is operating at the present time. Sylvia Price, Economic Development Director, presented written comments which are attached to these minutes on pages ~`~ She noted that changes were easily understood due to the underlining but expressed concern that deletions were not explained. She noted that the two deletions were very important since they both referred to extensions to Economic Development projects where those projects were the end object. She noted that EDC feels it also should be an exception as well as schools and public health concerns. She continued that the EDC should be included in the section related to Urban development and that the entire section should address Urban and Economic Development. Max Kennedy expressed, as a member of the Qrange County Board of Education, appreciation for considering extending water and sewer services into the Rural Buffer as this will impact on the new school which is in the planning process. He indicated he felt this is a step forward and a necessary one rather than building a new school using wells and septic tanks. Mr. Kennedy, as a private citizen, expressed concern that the line size is to be limited to that which would serve only the school site.- He felt this was very shortsighted and encouraged the Boards to consider extending water and sewer services to the properties along the line and control the number of tap-ons rather than not allowing tap-ons at all. He felt the County must, to a certain extent, get into the business of water and sewer services.