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Memo to Steering Committee Page 2 January 12, 1995 • (Deerfield, Brentwood, and Ridgewood), the Southeast Area does not have a large number of 234 acre subdivisions. Without this "belt" of 2% acre lots, the opportunity to extend city water and sewer easterly becomes easier and more cost efficient than an extension north along Highway 169. The other primary land uses in this planning area include commercial and industrial. Once again, the commercial and industrial areas are located along the Highway 10 corridor providing excellent visibility and access for retailing customers and service vehicles associated with industrial developments. Attached is a breakdown of the land uses mentioned above. With the exception of the North Planning Area, the Southeast Planning Area is the least developed and presents some of the best opportunities for future development consideration. The attached inventory helps illustrate the amount of available land that could be developed with urban services. SEWER AND WATER EXTENSION At an earlier Steering Committee meeting, Terry Maurer presented findings of a preliminary study which examined the feasibility of extending city water and sewer east along Highway 10. This feasibility study included two areas: a "primary study area" and an "ultimate study area" (see attached maps). • The Committee may wish to discuss these options as well as others to formulate a long range plan for sewer and water within this Southeast area. As I will discuss next, the zoning and land use decisions may be impacted by the decision to extend water and sewer. LAND USE ISSUES The Southeast Planning Area's land use/zoning issues can be broken down into three areas. First of all, depending upon where water and sewer will ultimately be planned to be extended, the residential zoning of Rla may need to be modified. In order to efficiently extend city services, larger lot sizes typically need to be maintained. For example, rather than allowing 21/2 acre subdivisions to be created prior to city services, a more acceptable practice is to retain a 10-acre minimum. Under this scenario, 10 acre parcels can be further subdivided either individually or combined with adjacent parcels to allow the extension of services in an orderly fashion. The appropriate zoning district for those properties that will eventually be serviced with the city water and sewer may be the Al (Agricultural) district which requires a minimum lot size of 10 acres. Until these decisions regarding sewer and water extension and appropriate • zoning are made, a moratorium on subdivisions of land into parcels of less than 10 acres is in effect for the Southeast Area. This moratorium was passed planning:steering:1-12meno