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Fl - 1990 BOOK 19 FAr,E POLICY 1.6: The county shall continue to allow the use of septic tanks in rural areas for single family units and for small retail establishments utilizing tanks for domestic waste disposal only, where approved by regulatory agencies. Director Keating believed when we say "new development," we are referring to subdivisions or site plans, and POLICY 1.6 recognizes that we are going to continue to allow the use of septic tanks on single family lots in platted subdivisions. Commissioner Bird asked how this would work if he wanted to develop a subdivision, and he was a mile from the sewer line. Would he be able to develop it and use septic tanks? Director Keating advised that it depends; it is all worked out through a rather complicated matrix. If you are inside the service area and have a subdivision within 1/2 mile of the system, you would have to bring the water and sewer to you. Commissioner Bird noted that only a very small percentage of the unincorporated area within the Urban Service Area has sewer capacity at this time. Planner Rohani pointed out that if they met the requirements for single family, we will let them build with septic tanks. Commissioner Bird felt that Policy 1.1 is too strong and that it needs to be modified to allow more flexibility. He stressed that it says "shall be approved only when capacity is available to provide sanitary sewer service." It was pointed out that "sanitary sewer service" could mean a septic tank. Commissioner Bird felt the words " or septic tank" should be added to Policy 1.1, but Director Keating pointed out that if the new development is within a certain distance of a system as specified in the connection matrix, it has to connect. Commissioner Bird gave the example of the entire Kings Highway corridor where there are no sewer lines and asked if you can build there. 118