Orange County NC Website
Browse       Search
INTEROFFICE MEMORANDUM: 8707-1 81 1 lag:: <br /> Durham-Hillsborough Water Line Agreement <br /> July 8, 1987 <br /> Page 2 <br /> providers and school boards for review and comment. <br /> Concurrent with the comment period, Ken asked that I meet <br /> with Gordon Baker and Geoffrey Gledhill to prepare the <br /> financial aspects of the water/sewer policy. Following <br /> receipt of the responses, the item was to be placed on the <br /> August 18 Commissioners agenda as a report item. A decision <br /> regarding the policy could be made at a subsequent meeting . <br /> WATER LINE AGREEMENT <br /> Ken identified those features of the agreement worthy of <br /> noting in his 6/2/87 memorandum. Of primary importance, <br /> however, is the service area issue . <br /> When the Board of Commissioners adopted the Land Use Plan in <br /> 1981 , goals and objectives were approved which addressed the <br /> question of service areas. Applicable goals are as follows : <br /> 9. 1 Develop and implement a cooperative joint planning <br /> process among the County municipalities and those <br /> organizations responsible for water and sewer lines to ' <br /> guide the extension of lines in accordance with the land <br /> use plans and policies of the affected jurisdictions. <br /> 9.2 Establish Urban Service Areas for Chapel Hill , Carrboro, <br /> Hillsborough, Mebane and Durham which will correspond <br /> with the 10-year and 20-year Transition Areas. Water and <br /> sewer lines should be directed to those areas which <br /> contain and are appropriate for higher density levels of <br /> residential , commercial and industrial development. <br /> The Planning Board sought to strengthen these goals by <br /> including, as part of its proposed water/sewer policy, the <br /> following recommendations : <br /> 1 . That Orange County immediately establish as a matter of <br /> policy that it will not approve any development project <br /> to be supplied with water and/or sewer unless located in <br /> a water/sewer service district incorporated Into the <br /> Land Use Plan and appropriate ordinances, following <br /> public hearing and citizen comment. <br /> 2. That, except in emergency situations, Orange County <br /> neither fund nor support extensions of public or private <br /> water/sewer services outside service areas adopted as <br /> part of the Land Use Plan. Furthermore, where County <br /> funds are used, in whole or in part, to finance <br /> extensions of such services, it shall retain some <br /> authority to determine the disposition of utility <br /> services provided. <br /> In the Durham-Hillsborough Water Agreement, numerous <br />