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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: August 15, 2000 <br />1 <br />Action en a <br />Item # <br />SUBJECT: Richmond Hills Sewer System Design (1) <br />Richmond Hills Preliminary Subdivision (2) <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning & Inspections PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/1S7 NO <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />1) Resolution of Approval Robert P. Davis, Planner III (Ext. 2580) <br />2) Area Maps - Craig Benedict, Planning Director (Ext. 2592) <br />3) Planning Board Resolution (Info only) Paul Thames, County Engineer (Ext. 2303) <br />4) Application and supporting documentation <br />5) Fiscal Impact Analysis <br />6) Minutes, May 4, 2000 PB Meeting <br />7) Agency Comments TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />8) Letter of Approval for Water Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />9) Preliminary Plan Durham 6$8-7331 <br />10) Sewer System Type Matrix Mebane 227-2031 <br />11) Kimley Horn Letter - Chapel Hill 967-9251 <br />12) Housing and Community Development Letter <br />13) County Engineer's Sewer Report <br />PURPOSE: The purpose of this two-part agenda item is <br />1. to decide and approve what type of sewer system design is most appropriate for the proposed <br />Richmond Hills (431ot) subdivision to connect to the existing county's Efland Sewer system, <br />and <br />2. to decide and act on the Richmond Hills Conservation-Cluster Flexible Development <br />Preliminary Plan. <br />• County Engineer's Report (See Attachment 13) <br />• Item 1 (Sewer System) <br />Since the proposed project is north of and adjacent to the portion of Efland sewer system neaz <br />Efland/Cheeks Elementary School, an extra decision step is required. This is the first major <br />subdivision to request connection to the Efland system. The design of the system and connection <br />may set a precedence and informal policy on inevitable other projects and sewer connections in the <br />area. <br />l . Consideration of Richmond Hills sewer system design (See Matrix of Sewer System Types) <br />a. `STEP' System -Administration recommendation <br />(individual on-site double septic tanks with effluent pump to force main <br />network to existing gravity) <br />b. `Gravity/sewage pump station' -Applicant request <br />(gravity sewer main network to large scale sewage lift station) <br />