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r � � --is covered under other County ordinances, particularly the utility_ ordinances that provide for the creation of franchises. Deputy County Attorney Will Collins understood that the purpose of policies 5.9 and 6.1 is to address situations like the Coraci property where our regulations require clustering but where individual wells and septic tanks potentially would cause pollution to the St. Sebastian River. Policies 5.9 and 6.1 offers some other non-polluting options such as extending central sewer or having privately -owned, public treatment plants. That is the way it reads now, but he believed we have another policy in there that says if the centralized lines come within a certain distance, either 200 feet or a quarter of a mile, they are required to hook up these plants to the public system. Director Keating stated that it has been staff's understanding that the franchise requirements would adequately cover this. Considerable discussion ensued regarding whether the County has an ability through the franchise to deny a developer's request to construct a package plant. Director Keating suggested adding language that would require new package plants built outside the urban service area to be owned and maintained by the County Utiliies Department, but the Board indicated they had reservations about that. Chairman Eggert asked what the Board's wishes were regarding those policies -- continue with them, throw them out, or reword them. Commissioner Scurlock felt they need some significant thought, but Director Keating pointed out that these Comp Plan amendments _ have to be sent to the State within 5 days. He felt the major benefit we have is any type of development outside the urban service area has to be Planned Development. With the Planned Development process the County has a lot of control and the County can impose specific regulations as to ownership of utilities or any other criteria there. Whether it is a mixed use development, an agricultural cluster, or a conservation district cluster, it has to be through Planned Development (PD). Director Keating believed that gives us a lot of control. Commissioner Scurlock still felt that 5.9 and 6.1 do not adequately address the issue. Director Keating advised -that we have several options on this issue. We are looking at the next round of changes to the land development regulations and we can put some language in the LDRs _ that gives the County adequate control. He still felt that we have all the control that is necessary through the Planned Development process. He didn't anticipate there would be that many cases where 131 MAY 0 5 1992