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Policy 6.1 of the Sanitary Sewer and Potable Water Sub -Elements Policy 6.1 of the Sanitary Sewer and Potable Water Sub -Elements _ provides criteria for the use of on-site water and wastewater .'treatment plants within the USA. As discussed above, the County must have the opportunity to allow use of on-site water and -. wastewater treatment plants to effectively implement the clustering :provisions of various comprehensive plan policies. Capital_Improvements Element part of the Capital Improvements Element (CIE) of the ;comprehensive plan,_ the County__- adopted its 5 year Capital °Improvements Program (CIP). This CIP was prepared for 1990-1995. Since it is already 1991, the County must revise its. five year CIP r ,."to reflect the appropriate five year period. Some of the improvements identified and budgeted in the 5 year CIP have already been accomplished, while other improvements need to be re-evaluated in terms of costs, revenues, and prioritization. At the time of plan adoption, it was known that the CIP would become outdated each year; therefore, one of the policies of the CIE�� ;.(policy l.l), as adopted, requires annual evaluation and update of '` h ;`.4 the 5 year CIP. Also, state regulations mandate that the CIE be amended if,conditions change to warrant it. The 5 -,,year CIP i is an important part of the Capital Improvements , Element. Since the 5 -year CIP incorporates improvements reflected; in other plan elements, and estimates and projections reflected in other portions 'of the Capital Improvements Element, revisions to titheCIP require amendment to the CIE as a whole. The Capital -Improvement Element, as proposed for revision, is attached. 3x'F ALTERNATIVES AND ANALYSIS Y In this section, an analysis of the proposed changes by element -will---::be provided. Consistency of the amendments with the `comprehensive plan and alternatives to the proposed changes will also be addressed. Future Land Use Element Policy 1.23 As identified in the Description and Conditions section of this staff report, several problems have been identified with respect to policy 1.23. Mostly, these problems relate to a lack of specificity with the policy, particularly a lack of any defined methodology to estimate node size, node development percentage, and other components of the policy. Also, the policy fails to identify circumstances that would make a node expansion "otherwise warranted." In analyzing Policy 1.23, staff has found that the Policy's substantive criteria appear to be adequate to accomplish the - objective of allowing node expansion only when a need for that expansion has been justified. The lack of specified methodology, however, detracts from implementation of this policy by changing the focus of node expansion requests from substantive to procedural issues. In node expansion amendment requests addressed by staff since plan adoption, considerable time, effort, and expense have been expended to estimate node size and developed acreage. This has occurred because different sources of information and different assumptions 15�`� N