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AUS 141990 Commissioner Scurlock then brought up the question of whether they have reserved utility capacity, and Director Keating answered that the concurrency study indicates utilities are available but he did not know if the capacity is actually reserved. Commissioner Scurlock agreed there is water capacity, but he did not believe there is any sewer capacity actually available in that entire corridor, and he did not believe you can pull a building permit without sewer capacity. Director Keating agreed that if you are saying the facilities are not adequate, state law says you can't approve a Development Order, and state law defines a rezoning as a Development Order. He further explained that from the staff level, you just have to know the capacity is there, but it doesn't actually have to be reserved. When you get to site plan approval, that is when concurrency dictates that capacity actually be reserved and be available when a building permit can be pulled. Commissioner Scurlock stressed the importance of making sure that we have our long range plans in order to make sure we are capable of servicing these areas. He pointed out that we do not know if we are going to build our own plant or acquire General Development Utilities, and we only have a nebulous agreement with the City for capacity at their plant. He further pointed out that the Strazullas went ahead and paid for their reservation of capacity for 650 ERUs, but it was noted that they already have the zoning. Commissioner Scurlock continued to emphasize that he just wants to be sure we are careful so that someone who pays for capacity all of a sudden can't get a permit when he is ready to build because we haven't built our plant in the meantime. Chairman Eggert felt what Commissioner Scurlock is suggesting would amount to a moratorium, and Commissioner Scurlock noted we could do as we did on Route 60 where the 45 M M M