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Comprehensive Plan <br />Sanitary Sewer Sub -Element <br />POLICY 5.8: Consistent with the policies of the Future Land Use Element of this plan, <br />provision of centralized sanitary sewer service shall be limited to the following areas: <br />• Areas within the Urban Service Area; <br />• Areas where the county has legal commitments to provide facilities and services as <br />of the date of adoption of this plan; <br />• Areas outside of the Urban Service Area where at least a portion of the site is <br />contiguous to an Urban Service Area boundary as depicted on the Official Future <br />Land Use Map. These areas are subject to the following provisions: <br />o The maximum density of such land shall be as shown on the Future <br />Land Use Map, and the provision of centralized sanitary sewer service <br />shall not be justification for an increase in maximum density; <br />o Sanitary sewer line extensions shall be limited to laterals and minor <br />lines connecting land uses to main lines; and <br />o In no case shall centralized sanitary sewer lines be permitted to extend <br />more than 500 feet from the centerline of a roadway which is an Urban <br />Service Area boundary, or more than 500 feet from the Urban Service <br />Area boundary when the boundary is not a roadway. <br />• Development projects located outside of the Urban Service Area that meet the <br />criteria of the policies of the Future Land Use Element for: <br />o clustering of residential development within agricultural; <br />o clustering of residential development within privately owned upland <br />conservation areas; <br />o clustered development within mixed use districts; <br />o traditional neighborhood design communities; <br />o public facilities such as public schools; and <br />o agricultural businesses and industries (including biofuel facilities) <br />• Areas where, consistent with Sanitary Sewer Sub -Element Policy 2.4, the lack of <br />centralized sanitary sewer service is determined to be a public health threat. <br />POLICY 5.9: The county shall install automatic air release valves in all new sewer lines. <br />Community Development Department Indian River County 41 <br />