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• <br /> Petition 4880. It was reported at the public hearing that the village <br /> and town had come to a political compromise to approve this unsewered <br /> development to achieve the change of access from Simonson Road to Hwy • <br /> 73. The proposal is to provide access from London Road, up Sky Terrace <br /> to the existing rural home parcels. <br /> While we can understand the desire to achieve a compromise, creating a <br /> major unsewered development in an urban service area runs contrary to <br /> longer term public policy concerns and adopted policy. <br /> 1 . Unsewered development must be low density to accommodate on-site <br /> systems. The applicant proposes slightly under one acre per unit , <br /> while sewered development allows and encourages densities of three <br /> to six units per acre. <br /> 2. Unsewered development Is very costly to retrofit with urban <br /> services. Beside the high cost due to low density, other costs <br /> are: <br /> a. The plats usually are not designed for urban services, thus <br /> lift stations and easements are needed to accommodate street <br /> grades. <br /> b. The streets must be torn up and reconstructed to install <br /> urban services. <br /> c. Homeowners must remove septic tanks and Install laterals <br /> from the street (this usually entails digging in both the <br /> front and back of the house) . <br /> 3. The area is within the well protection zone of Deerfield public <br /> water supply wells. This particular proposal is high density for <br /> unsewered development , but very low density for urban development . <br /> 4. If the area is to be urbanized, It should be developed with urban <br /> services. It could be phased to encourage the early road <br /> 4 connection; the development of other areas could proceed as area <br /> is needed. <br /> 4. 5. Deerfield currently has 152 acres of vacant developable land for <br /> residential use In the urban service area. Using 30 acres for <br /> unsewered development is using 1/5 of that area, with little <br /> likelihood that there would be any urban services installed within <br /> the 20 year planning period. Historically, only falling septic <br /> systems motivates property owners to be connected to urban <br /> services once they have been allowed to build with on-site <br /> systems. <br /> 4 <br />