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03/26/2001 15:05 9196443002 OR. CTY. PLANNING PAGE 27 Orange County Hoard of Commissioners Fags 2 September 5, 2000 Another concern has to do with the need for stronger language acknowledging existing service agreements and obligations. A final concern, clarified during Water and Sewer Boundary Taek Force meetings some time ago, is that the terms "service extensions" and "line extensions"'when used to descrzbe extensions into Chatham County do not include bulk water transfers or a bulk water transfer line to OWA.SA's system from a Jordan Lake intake facility. - - - Garrborv='•s= -re~c-lution of apPro~ral wc~uid add the Rangewood Subdivision and the Heritage Halls Subdivision to the Agreement map as part of the OwAS•A Service Area, The deletion from Sectioza VI.F, of the Agreement of the proviso "recognizing the land use implications of public water and public sewer service in adjacent counties or jurisdictions within Orange County," is, in my opin~,on,.not a substantive change to the Agreement. However, at may be significant. xn that regard Carrboro's resolution seeks clarification from "Orange County" with regard to the proceBe for linking with the Joint Planning Agreement. As you know, all jurisdictions were represented during the Water and Sewer Boundary Task Force meetings. The point of including the Water & Sewer Planning & Boundary Agreement in the Joint Planning Land Vse documents was made repeatedly dura.ng those meetings. This is part of the overall strategy to make sure that the local government decisions about where public water and sewer will be permitted cannot be undone by third persons seeking connection to public water and sewer systErria. This ie . the method used in other places around the country to ensure that the utility planning efforts of the public water and sewer utilities and the land use planning efforts of the local governments doing land use planning are not thwarted through insistence by landowners and the development community of public water and sewer cannectians contrary to the planned service areas of the utilities. Carrboro's request that Heritage Hills and Rangewood be. included in the OWASA •`Sexvice" area (as opposed to a.ts "Interest " area) may or may not be an issue for Chapel Hill and Orange County. Both of these subdivisions have been served by OWASA for many years and both of these subdivisions are located zn the Rural Buffer. And, both of these subdivisions are subject to a 1994 OWASA connection policy, a copy of which is enclosed.