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Orange County Board of Commissioners <br />Page 2 <br />May 14, 2001 <br />Efland Sewer System into undeveloped land. This may be deemed <br />desirable by the Board as a way to move ahead with the bond <br />issue sewer system project while discussions about the Orange <br />Alamance Water System and any other potential public water <br />provider in the area are underway. These issues are complex and <br />will take some time to resolve. In that regard, I cannot tell <br />you how long it is reasonable to maintain a moratorium on <br />extensions to the Efland Sewer System into undeveloped land, <br />particularly those within the overall system plan. I can tell <br />you that however long it takes will be too long to hold off <br />consideration of the two projects that are in the planning <br />"pipeline" which are proposed to be served by the Efland Area <br />Sewer System, one with Orange Alamance water and the other with <br />a community well system. Because these projects have been in the <br />pipeline for some time, it is, in my opinion, necessary to move <br />them through the planning process and to consider them in the <br />context of existing rules and regulations. That is why the <br />Ashwick Subdivision and the McGowan Creek Subdivision precede <br />consideration of the Outline on your agenda for tomorrow night. <br />As you can see from the agenda materials, the <br />administration recommendation is for approval of the Ashwick <br />Subdivision. It will be a public water and public sewer project <br />served with water by Orange Alamance and by Orange County's <br />sewer system. Its location within the Efland Area Sewer System <br />and within the Orange Alamance water system make many of the <br />policy issues in front of you secondary for this project. In <br />that respect it is a better project than the Richmond Hills <br />Subdivision. The Ashwick project is completely within the <br />overall system plan and located such that the Orange Alamance <br />water system that serves it will provide fire protection. By <br />comparison, the Richmond Hills Subdivision required an overall <br />system plan boundary change, a sewer system design change and is <br />probably too far away from the larger pipes of the Orange <br />Alamance system for it to receive reliable fire protection from <br />that system. <br />The administration is recommending denial of the McGowan <br />Creek Subdivision because it can only be accomplished as <br />designed with public sewer and it is located wholly outside of <br />the present overall system plan. Further, approximately one half <br />of the project is outside of the 20 -year transition area on the <br />land use map for this area. The Manager, the Planning Director <br />