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SG TUESDAY NOVEMBER 10, 1970 might be served by the City's Mulberry Creek Sewer Outfall Line, and with reference to the request for sewer service for Tan Bark Place Subdivision, as filed October 13, 1970, by Rives S. Brown, Realtor, City Manager Noland and Public Works Director Brown filed the following report and recommendations which Council unanimously accepted, thus authorizing sewer service for Tan Bark place Subdivision upon the conditions set forth in said report: In accordance with Council's recent directive, this is an attempt to place in perspective, and suggest a policy with regard to Tan Bark Place as a specific situation, and for the area of which Tan Bark Place is a part. The Rives S. Brown Company's letter, read at the recent Council meeting, outlined the history of this situation as well as the reason for the current problem. It seems clear that the Company developed this property in accordance with the terms of the City's ordinance and policy covering such development but that the problem arises because of an apparent change in State Health Department policy, during the time the subdivision development was being completed. So, the question is, on what basis might the developer and the City equitably share in the cost of installing a sanitary sewer line to take the place of individual septic tanks which had been originally contemplated but now no longer possible, as we under- stand the situation. Topograph and/or existing or proposed land use development are the deter- mining factors in the location of a gravity type sanitary sewer line, and these were the determinants when the Mulberry Creek Interceptor was designed and installed, as a part of the City's overall and long range sewerage system development plan. Accordingly, when the City installed the Mulberry Creek Interceptor, to serve areas inside the City limits, it was necessary that a major portion of the total distance of the line be placed outside the City limits. However, this topographic necessity added a relatively vast area to the line's potential, a factor taken into con- sideration in its design. It would be practical, then, to install future branches of the Mulberry Creek Interceptor to serve areas on the north and south sides of Route 58 East, extending to the Mt. Olivet section of the north side of Route 58, some little distance outside the City limits. Because of the relative area potential of the Mulberry Creek Interceptor is so vast, and because so little is known about any plans for development of areas which might need to use this interceptor, it seems logical to confine the present consideration to the Tank Bark Place problem. The terrain surrounding the street the developers are calling Tan Bark Place indicates that the subdivider is developing this particular area to its practical maximum, which justifies their statement that the installation of a line to connect the lots fronting on Tan Bark Place with the Mulberry Creek Interceptor would be too costly for economic amortization from Tan Bark Place alone.