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32 <br />PROPOSED ORDINANCE AMENDMENT <br />ORDINANCE: Zoning Ordinance <br />REFERENCE: 1) Article 22 Definitions <br />2) Article 6.15.2 Interim Development Standards <br />Approved (University <br />Lake Watershed (ULW) District] <br />3) Article 6.25.7 Water Supply /Sewage Disposal <br />Facilities Required (University <br />Lake Watershed (ULW) District] <br />ORIGIN OF AMENDMENT: —X—Staff Planning Board <br />BOCC Public <br />—X—Other: County Attorney <br />STAFF PRIORITY RECOMMENDATION: _X High Middle Low <br />Comment: <br />EXPECTED PUBLIC HEARING DATE: May 29, 1990 <br />PURPOSE OF AMENDMENTS: To clarify the application of Article <br />6.25.7 to existing dwellings and uses. The current standards <br />would prevent such uses with failing septic systems and no <br />suitable disposal site on the same lot from locating <br />nitrification fields on a separate lot. <br />An additional purpose is to provide definitions of "septic <br />tank system," alternative septic system," and "community <br />alternative system." The latter definition was inadvertently <br />omitted when revisions to the interim development standards <br />(Article 6.15.2) for University Lake watershed were adopted. <br />IMPACTS /ISSUES: On April 2, 1990, the Board of Commissioners <br />adopted protection measures for University Lake watershed. <br />The new standards limit water supply and sewage treatment <br />systems to individual wells and on -site septic systems or <br />individual on -site alternative disposal systems. "On- site" <br />means that no system will be permitted where effluent <br />disposal occurs on a separate lot. Repair areas must be <br />located on the same lot as the dwelling (or use) which <br />generates the wastewater. <br />Following adoption of the standards, the County Attorney was <br />reviewing easement documents to permit the septic system <br />repair area for a dwelling to be located on an adjoining <br />residential lot. Located in University Lake watershed, the <br />