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Wastewater Service Areas <br />The Council has a long history of <br />aligning land development with the <br />staging of new connections to <br />regional wastewater service. This has <br />helped the Council to provide efficient <br />and affordable service; to create <br />predictability for landowners, cities <br />and developers; to ensure that future <br />revenues cover the expense of the <br />infrastructure; and to protect ground - <br />and surface -water quality. Many <br />Council policies relate to a <br />community's level of wastewater <br />service: <br />• Wastewater Service Area is <br />land currently served by the <br />regional wastewater treatment <br />system. <br />• Planned Wastewater Service <br />Area includes land that is not <br />IICY <br />currently served but is staged to receive regional wastewater treatment service by 2040. <br />• Long-term Wastewater Service Area represents land that is planned to receive <br />wastewater treatment service sometime after 2040. <br />To further stewardship of the region's water and financial resources, the Council will continue to <br />apply established wastewater policies. Additionally, wastewater operations and investments will <br />be aligned with other activities as part of the Council's new water sustainability approach. <br />As a long-standing responsibility of the Council, wastewater service polices are woven into the <br />community designations outlined in the next sections. In order to ensure efficient use of regional <br />infrastructure, the Council defines minimum residential density levels in areas planned for <br />regional wastewater service by 2040. In areas planned for post-2040 regional wastewater <br />service, the Council defines maximum residential densities. <br />The map above is intentionally illustrative. See the Council's website and adopted amendments <br />to the Water Resources Policy Plan for up-to-date maps of the long-term wastewater area and <br />the Metropolitan Urban Services Area. For specific approaches, policies and additional analysis <br />related to wastewater service policies, visit: <br />• the Stewardship and Sustainability sections of the Thrive Outcomes (p. 9 and 29) <br />• the Water Sustainability Land Use policy (p. 69) <br />• the Orderly and Efficient Land Use policy (p. 64) <br />• the 2040 Water Resources Policy Plan. <br />DRAFT FOR PUBLIC COMMENT <br />Last revised: February 21, 2014 48 <br />