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-15 - <br /> <br />Plant. <br /> <br /> There is also concern with several of the City's proposed <br /> local policies affecting the planning, management, and <br /> finance of its local sewer system. -The City plans to <br /> "guarantee sewer service availability by a certain date <br /> (five to ten years hence) to an increment of the 1990 <br /> Urban Service Area beginning at its southeast corner <br /> (sewer service availability area)". Planning for sewer <br /> service extensions should be coordinated with the provision <br /> and improvement of other urban services.- The City should <br />· define the 1990 Urban Service Area as two-five year <br /> urbanization areas as provided in the Metropolitan Land <br /> Planning Area. <br /> <br />The City also proposes to allow development to urban <br />densities within the designated sewer availability area <br />using temporary on-site sewage disposal facilities. The <br />plan is not clear whether this development will be required <br />to hook up to central sanitary sewers when it is available. : <br />The Metropolitan Council's position is that central sahitary <br />sewers should be provided at the time of initial development to <br />avoid both pollution problems and a duplication of costs to residents <br />for waste management facilities. Furthermore, the Council's <br />waste management policies do not support the use of "temporary" <br />on-site systems: "In areas where local urban services - <br />especially sanitary sewers - are not planned for at least five <br />to ten years, the community may choose to allow very low <br />density, quasi-rural development to be constructed w~th on- <br />lot septic tank systems. In such instances, these areas are <br />considered rural, and waste.disposal methods must be con- <br />sistent with the Policies established in the Waste Management <br />Guide Chapter for the Rural Service Area." Thus, the Council's <br />position is that urban density development should not be <br />permitted anywhere in the proposed Urban Service Area until <br />central sanitary sewers are available. In an area scheduled <br />for sanitary sewers within $ years, initial urban development <br />should not proceed unless coordinated with the provision of <br />sewers. C/irrent development in areas planned for central <br />sewers more than 5 years in the future should be low density <br />and rural in nature, served by adequate septic tank systems. <br /> <br />Ramsay also does not plan to extend sewers to existing large <br />lot development within the Urban Service Area unless a) they <br /> <br /> <br />