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3 <br /> STAFF SUMMARY OF COUNTY REGULATIONS AND OWASA POLICY <br /> CONCERNING WATER AND SEWER EXTENSIONS <br /> IN UNIVERSITY LAKE WATERSHED <br /> September 25, 1997 <br /> COUNTY REGULATIONS <br /> The Water and Sewer Policy, Zoning Ordinance and Subdivision Regulations all contain provisions <br /> related to the extension of public water and sewer service. Excerpts from each of these documents are <br /> attached. Key provisions are summarized below. <br /> 1. WATER AND SEWER POLICY <br /> Goal 3 - Development Patterns of the Orange County Water and Sewer Policy allows public <br /> water and sewer extensions as follows: <br /> a) Outside of Transition Areas <br /> • may serve an essential public facility <br /> • may -correct a public health emergency not otherwise correctable <br /> b) In Rural Buffer <br /> • must be sized to address only the concern for which the system is extended <br /> • written water and sewer service agreements valid prior to April 3, 1989 may be <br /> honored <br /> 2. ZONING ORDINANCE <br /> Article 6.23.8 (Watershed Protection Overlay Districts) allows only the use of individual on-site <br /> septic systems or individual on-site alternative disposal systems in the University Lake <br /> Watershed. <br /> 3. SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS <br /> Section IV-B-6 of the Subdivision Regulations (Interim Development Standards) states that <br /> public water and sewer may be extended into University Lake Watershed to remedy a public <br /> health emergency identified by Environmental Health. <br /> The interim development standards were initially adopted in 1989 and were last revised in 1991, <br /> during the development of regulations in response the University Lake Watershed Study prepared <br /> by Camp, Dresser and McKee in 1987. The interim standards were intended to apply only until <br /> permanent regulations were put into place. Permanent regulations were adopted on January 1, <br /> 1994, when regulations pertaining to Orange County's ten protected watersheds were revised to <br /> reflect State-mandated watershed protection requirements. Also at that time zoning regulations <br /> were applied to Little River and Cedar Grove Townships. Since all of Orange County's planning <br /> jurisdiction was then subject to the Zoning Ordinance, regulations pertaining to watershed <br />