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r- -MAY 051 BOOK 8 F,;E •� -- Community Development Director Robert Keating advised that in their 90 -day review of the proposed changes, DCA had the most problem with the change of making adjustments to node boundaries without going through the Comp Plan amendment process. He didn't think that had a chance of flying, but we have worked out a negotiated settlement with the DCA whereby we are amending that specific policy to refer to the adjustments as interpretations and to indicate certain conditions where the node boundary is interpreted where property may go out as well as come into the node. We have made that one policy change. Director Keating noted that one of two important changes relating to utilities is the one recommended by the Professional Services Advisory Committee whereby the utility connection matrix be changed from square footage to gallonage. The other change relates to water and sewer outside the urban service area to service cluster types of developments. Director Keating stated that basically staff feels that all of DCA -1s objections and comments have been adequately addressed. With that, staff recommends approval. Chairman Eggert wanted to be sure, in terms of total developed acreage, that counting that land in at Humana Hospital in Sebastian is covered under the way the proposed ordinance is worded, and Director Keating confirmed that the revised definitions have both total node acreage and developed acreage and adequately address the issues that we had before. Commissioner Scurlock was concerned about Policies 5.9 and 6.1 in Sanitary Sewer Sub -Element and the Potable Water Sub -Element. He emphasized that Indian River County has pursued a policy that says the provider of utilities in this county will be the County and he has a concern that these two particular conditions are not specific enough and that they allow package systems. It seemed to him that this is inconsistent with the past number of years and that this would be opening Pandora's Box again to private little package plants, and we all know the history of that. Director Keating stated that it is understanding that the changes to policies 5.9 and 6.1 allow the extension of County service lines outside the urban service areas if it is a clustering. It also would allow the package treatment plants pursuant to franchise agreements that would be developed by the Utilities Department. Commissioner Bird asked if that would be a satellite operation to the primary operation, and Commissioner Scurlock responded that he didn't believe there is any real clarity to this example. Director Keating explained that it was staff's position that -- we would not have all the specificity in the Comp Plan, because it 130