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5 <br /> bonuses altogether for OSD's - arguing that there is incentive enough in allowing cluster. <br /> However, the County's existing cluster development provisions in the Subdivision Regulations <br /> do not allow for density bonuses. Additionally, only two cluster developments have actually been <br /> built in the five years these guidelines have been in effect. <br /> 3. SIZEISCALE OF DEVELOPMENTS <br /> Another issues that was raised, in both Committee deliberations and in the east-central <br /> community meeting, was that of development scale. Committee members considered acreage <br /> limits on the scale of development projects in 1992 but opted against recommending limits. <br /> However, several persons at the east-central meeting at New Hope School raised the issue again <br /> as an important one in rural areas - citing concerns about the scale and cumulative impacts of <br /> large projects. <br /> The rationale against imposing limits is, among others, that size limits promote piecemeal <br /> development and work against coordinated, master-planned developments. Additionally, size <br /> limits would also limit the amount and contiguity of open space that could be preserved. <br /> 4. WATER/SEWER PROVISION IN OPEN-SPACE DEVELOPMENTS <br /> This issue in actuality contains two sub-issues: public water and sewer line extension, and the <br /> types of alternative wastewater systems/oversight methods that are appropriate. <br /> The study recommendations call for public water and sewer service only for OSD's in the <br /> Hillsborough "open-space area", and non-discharging, land-application alternative systems for <br /> OSD's in the remaining rural areas -only where those systems are designed, installed, monitored <br /> and maintained by the County Health Department's Monitoring and Maintenance (now the <br /> Wastewater Treatment Oversight) program. (Note: Since the Committee's consideration of this <br /> matter, the proposed program now involves only monitoring oversight). <br /> The public water and sewer provision issue was only discussed at the east-central (New Hope) <br /> meeting. Persons in the northern and southwestern areas did not voice any expectations of public <br /> water/sewer utility service. Citizens in the Hillsborough "open-space area" expressed several <br /> concerns with how service would be provided and whether there would be safeguards to ensure <br /> that sprawl would not result from the extension of Hillsborough water/sewer service in the area. <br /> Questions of economic feasibility and service standards were discussed. <br /> In the northern and southwestern meetings, many citizens expressed concern over the use of <br /> alternative systems (on the heels of the Piney Mountain subdivision system failure). Several <br /> persons recommended keeping septic tanks as the means of wastewater provision, while others <br /> had questions about monitoring, maintenance and future expansion or takeover of alternative <br /> systems. <br /> 3 <br />