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<br /> 450 Charity Kirk: Just focusing on this one aspect, because it has, we brought it up multiple times in
<br /> 451 meetings with concern over community waste treatment systems. What can we actually—
<br /> 452 like, what can we put in our ordinances related to this? Like, would we just say
<br /> 453 developments over 20 can do this? Like, so far we've limited things as a board and as the
<br /> 454 board of county commissioners to just individual septic systems for the home, because
<br /> 455 we're a little afraid of community stuff. So, how can we regulate or add this in? What is
<br /> 456 there to consider as we add this in, or add this option in?
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<br /> 458 Tom Altieri: Right. I understand. And so, I think it's important. We had some discussion with the
<br /> 459 county commissioners regarding the general level of detail that needs to be in the land-
<br /> 460 use plan and the specific design requirements and standards in the unified development
<br /> 461 ordinance. So, there are two pieces. And so, the land-use plan would come first. Of
<br /> 462 course, we need a good understanding that rural conservation subdivisions are something
<br /> 463 that we want to see as part of our land-use plan. The land-use plan would or could
<br /> 464 address where in the county those would potentially be allowed. Currently, in the
<br /> 465 preliminary draft, we do have some areas that are shown somewhat haphazard, but there
<br /> 466 is some method to that madness there in terms of lot size, and they're outside of critical
<br /> 467 areas, and large tracts of land, approximately 50 acres apiece and so forth. So, that part
<br /> 468 we can do in the land-use plan. Do we want them? Where would we like them to apply?
<br /> 469 And then, really, quite a number of standards that could be included in the LIDO to
<br /> 470 determine how do these systems need to be designed. Some of those suggestions have
<br /> 471 been included in the materials from our presenters. Such things as having an additional
<br /> 472 well site as part of a conservation subdivision; not necessarily having to drill an additional
<br /> 473 well, but make sure that there's open space and that there's an additional site there if it
<br /> 474 were to be needed. The types of waste-water systems; there are advanced systems that
<br /> 475 have pre-treatment so that that effluent that's applied to the ground as part of that ground-
<br /> 476 water system, or ground-absorption system, has some element of pre-treatment. Of
<br /> 477 course, with that you're driving up cost, so there's some things to consider there.
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<br /> 479 Charity Kirk: Well, like, the Fiddlehead Farm, or the Fiddlehead Development, was really interesting to
<br /> 480 me. But it just didn't feel like—well, there was a few things off. So, if we wanted
<br /> 481 something like that to be allowed in the future, what would we need to do? Especially with
<br /> 482 — I'm just focusing on wastewater treatment here. I've talked to a public health inspector
<br /> 483 at one point who said some of the community septic systems for mobile home parks are
<br /> 484 not well maintained. So, there's been failures there. I don't feel like the Fiddlehead
<br /> 485 community would necessarily fall into that, but maintenance becomes a big thing, and
<br /> 486 how do we control for maintenance of these systems if we allow these systems? Because
<br /> 487 1 think that's one of the sticking points we've had as a board.
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<br /> 489 Tom Altieri: There can be, for example, operation agreements that, you know, include how those
<br /> 490 systems are to be maintained and by whom. Largely, it's an HOA with oversight of a
<br /> 491 contract, and so that would be part of the development package as it's put together.
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<br /> 493 Charity Kirk: I mean, we've been talking about trailers out in the county. Like, the county becomes
<br /> 494 responsible for derelict trailers. So, how do you make it so the county doesn't become
<br /> 495 responsible for these failing systems?
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<br /> 497 Cy Stober: So, if memory serves, because it's been a year, I think we actually poked at this issue in
<br /> 498 the draft plan as an action item for further investigation and discussion as part of the
<br /> 499 implementation strategy of the land-use plan. While there was a lot of discussion of
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