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REGIONAL PLANNING <br /> • STAFF COMMENTS <br /> Petition 4806. This proposed 4-lot unsewered development is within the <br /> Deerfield urban service area. The commercial and residential uses to the <br /> south of London Road are outside the urban service area and existed prior <br /> to plan adoption. <br /> The C-2 area to the west is the Deerfield Town Hall and to the east there <br /> are four houses on 1-acre lots. While these uses are in the urban <br /> service area, they were developed unsewered, prior to plan adoption. The <br /> area to the north is open farm field. <br /> The town plan has no specific policies for this area, since the village <br /> is the provider of urban services and does have policies. <br /> The village plan for this area is residential development at an urban <br /> density of 3 to 6 units per acre. Relevant village policies are: <br /> - Encourage planned residential development restricted to public <br /> water and sewer service areas as designated on the Development <br /> Plan. Map. <br /> - All subdivision and apartment housing shall develop contiguous to <br /> existing development . <br /> This proposal conflicts with the plan policies on all points: <br /> - Plan policy restricts development in the urban service area to <br /> sewered development . Sewered development is higher density, .thus <br /> requiring less land area. By developing unsewered, large lots <br /> are required to accommodate septic tanks and filter fields. When <br /> sewer and water reach this area, it will be much more expensive <br /> to install the utilities and the septic tanks will have to be <br /> removed. <br /> - It is not contiguous to other development " . . . .served by public <br /> utilities. " This site is at the southern edge of the current <br /> Deerfield urban service area. It will probably be several years <br /> before urbanization with sewer and water reaches this area. Thus <br /> development now Is very premature and will make future urban <br /> development of the area much more difficult . <br /> These are the reasons there is a general policy in the Farmland <br /> Preservation Plan, which states: "Unsewered residential or commercial <br /> development should not be permitted in areas where towns have planned <br /> future sewered development . " <br /> This proposal is obviously in conflict with the adopted county policy. <br />