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1~ Ted Triebel: 1 believe that something was said at the start of the group that this study was going to be done without expanding the existing water and sewer capacity fields, Rather, they were going to work with the existing system and what's on line. Craig Benedict: They are going to include Phase 2 of the reservoir., Ted Triebel: I understood him to say that this was part of our restrictive requirements when we go about developing the alternatives.. We ai e not going to recommend the placement of additional sewer lines, Craig Benedict: They will be analyzing the existing lift station locations they have now and find out if relocation of those stations can pick up more areas efficiently, and if they're not going to stretch the sewer system beyond capacity, They are going to try to create an urbanizing environment with water and sewer systems marred, This will be matched to the Water and Sewer Planning Map and Boundary Agreement. There is clarity that the coverage area is oversized, and they will not be able to service the entire area with the current system. Craufurd Goodwin: Is there a target date for the report? Ted Triebel: In about a yeaz. The only target date thrown out was that by this fall they will have a draft available for public inspection and presentation. AGENDA ITEM #8: CONSIDERATION OF CHILD DAY CARE ZONING TEXT AMENDMENTS Glenn Bowles: Mr, Chairman, I appreciate your keeping this item on the agenda. I gave up my .35th anniversary to be here, Back in November, we had a Quarterly Public Heazing at which time the subject was brought up about making revisions to the zoning ordinance relating to child care facilities. It was referred back to Staff to contact Nancy Coston, Director of Social Services for the County, to get her input to make certain that there weren't any unintended impacts or aspects of what we are trying to do that might affect the provision of services. Now, Ms. Coston has given us a letter stating that she has found nothing wrong with what we were trying to do. The chart here summarizes what has happened, We aze redefining family day care homes, day care homes and child care facilities using nomenclature that the State is now using. As you can see, our standards right now for a day care home is between 5 and 16 children on site. We will be changing that to between 3 and 12, Two or less children will essentially not be regulated, Anything more than 13 will be a day care facility, which we define as anything over 5 children. So, as you can seek there is some ambiguity in the differences in numbers between what people see when they go through the State licensure procedures and when they get licensed in Orange County. We aze not necessazily talking about the same numbers, and it causes some confusion, We felt that if we changed our regulations to be more consistent with the State, then it will make the process a little simpler for the people who will want to become providers. The biggest part of the changes are just the definitions, and that throughout the text there were references to day care facilities or lazge child care facilities, and now we have changed those, One minor change is on p. 5 of your handout; there aze some small changes in the design. For example, we want to require that all gates be selfclasing and self latching, We also want to see that the pickup and delivery of the children should be on-site.. Right now there are no provisions for that; they could