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. <br /> 047 <br /> Synopsis of Comments <br /> Goal 2 - Sewage Disposal <br /> Provide adequate and appropriate sewage disposal facilities for <br /> all current and future residents. <br /> B. Alternative System Policies (Draft Policy) <br /> l t4.err.at i vw System a radicles <br /> 1 . The use of alternatives to traditional septic systems <br /> should be facilitated on land unsuitable for septic <br /> tanks and not served by public sewer. The elimination <br /> of administration and informational barriers to the use <br /> of safe, sanitary alternat(ve on-site disposal systems <br /> within the County should be encouraged. <br /> 2. The use of private community treatment systems should be <br /> discouraged as a means of sewage disposal throughout <br /> Orange County. <br /> a. Ground absorption sewage disposal systems of 3000 <br /> gallons per day or more design capacity, and <br /> package treatment plants with a design capacity of <br /> 3000 gallons per day or less should be allowed only <br /> in situations where the clustering of development <br /> is utilized to occupy a smaller land area and/or <br /> only through Special Use Permit or Planned <br /> Development approval procedures as set forth in the <br /> Subdivision Regulations and/or Zoning Ordinance. <br /> b. Ground absorption systems with a design capacity of <br /> 3 ,000 gallons per day or more and package treatment <br /> plants for sanitary sewage disposal are expressly <br /> prohibited in the Agricultural Residential (AR) , <br /> Rural Buffer (R8) , Water Supply Watershed (PW- II ) , <br /> and Water Quality Critical Area (WQCA) districts as <br /> shown in the Land Use Plan except as may be <br /> approved through Special Use Permit or Planned <br /> Development approval procedures. <br /> 3. The responsibilities and duties adjunct to the operation <br /> and maintenance of package sewage treatment plants <br /> should be specified as a requirement to the permitting <br /> process for such facilities in the Subdivision <br /> Regulations and/or Zoning Ordinance. <br /> Economic Development Commission <br /> 1. Alternative Systems Policies (pages 2-3). This section <br /> seems both to encourage and discourage alternative systems. without <br /> defining those systems. There is clearly a need to examine these <br /> systems more carefully, to identify what works (and doesn't work) . <br /> As written it is unclear who decides what type of alternative system <br /> is allowed at a particular site. Is it Health Department staff? <br /> Planning staff? The policy should make this clear. and if the <br /> approval procedures are already stated elsewhere, e.g. in zoning or <br /> other ordinances or codes. reference those document(s). <br /> 2-B-1 <br />