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Overview <br />The Master Plan, together with detailed <br />engineerin9 drawings for site <br />improvements, defines a network of <br />utilities that will serve the Town Center. <br />While understanding the location, size and <br />characteristics of sanitary sewer, storm <br />sewer and water system components is <br />important, development proposals must <br />also acknowledge awareness of the Town <br />Center's relationship [o the city water <br />supply - specifically, its relationship to the <br />regional aquifer. New development <br />projects have a responsibility to use best <br />practices for proper connection to utilities, <br />monitor flow of materials into storm <br />sewer and provide recommendations for <br />landscape and pavement maintenance in <br />an effort to reduce, or eliminate, potential <br />pollution sources. <br /> <br />The Town Center will also be served by a' <br />full complement of utility connections <br />including cable, fiber optic, electric, <br />telephone and so on. As always call for <br />location of all site utilities prior to <br />construction. <br /> <br />Guideline Recommendations <br />An important part of the Master Plan, <br />utility guidelines promote the idea of <br />balancing quality service, adequate <br />capacity and the physical needs of site <br />development with the more qualitative <br />issues of aesthetics, proper maintenance <br />and environmental health. These <br />guidelines encourage the following: <br />· Subscribe to, and implement best <br /> management practices as the <br /> benchmark for utility design and <br /> maintenance <br /> <br />Electrical service~ and other utilities as <br />appropriate, should be buried <br />underground or located along service <br />corridors and other 'back of house' <br />locations <br />Limit salt use and'chemical <br />applications as much as possible to <br />reduce potential to carry these <br />substances via storm sewer to water <br />amenities within the Town Center'and <br />also into the Mississipp! River <br /> <br />Examples <br />Not easily photographed (mostly <br />underground), the intent is to suggest <br />thai: even site utilities have a role in the <br />overall success of the Town Center. <br /> <br />47 <br /> <br /> <br />