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MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT
The Payette Lakes region possesses unique scenic and
environmental qualities that require sensitive planning and develop-
ment by the city of McCall and Valley County.
To protect the water quality of Payette Lake, the Payette
Lakes [,later and Sewer District has applied for EPA Brant monies to
construct a major sewage trunk line and treatment system to service
the City of McCall and the Payette Lakes Water and Sewer District.
The proposed construction has focused community concern about con-
struction safety, the degree of lake front development, and equi-
table representation by the residents in the Impact Area on the
McCall Planning and Zoning Commission to assure sensitive develop-
ment of the shared land and water resources within the impact area.
The following issues have been identified and discussed
in the environmental mediation: process. Parties to the mediation
ara the City of McCall, Valley County, the Payette Lakes Water
and Sewer District, and the Payette Lakes Homeowners Association.
We recognize that the following issues should be re-
solved through mediation, if possible:
1. What policies will the Payette Lakes Water and Sewer
District adopt pertaining to the allocation of sewer hook-ups to
be available?
These policies should be based on the assumption that there
will be approximately 230 hook-ups in addition to hook-ups to 990
units which were projected to be in existence in 1978.
The mediation panel recommends to the Sewer District's
Board of Directors that it adopt a policy of allocating and allow-
ing hood: -ups in conformity with the District's design density crap.
The mediation panel further recommends to the Sewer
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exceeded. The panel urges the Board to adopt a policy that it will
ennact a moratorium on issuance of permits after the 230 additional
units have been hooked up, if there is then insufficient flow data
available to allow the District to determine with reasonable cer-
tainty whether the capacity of the system may have been reached.
The panel recommends also that the Payette Lakes Water and Sewer
District recognize that the number of connections are finite and
a policy of hook-ups that is fair and equitable to all the parties
must be developed.
2. What governmental entity will administer the McCall
Impact Area, and how shall the Planning and Zoning Commission be
constituted?
The panel recommends to the Valley County Commissioners
and the McCall City Council that:
a. Valley County and the City of McCall establish a
joint planning and zoning commission for the area of impact.
b. That such Commission shall, consist of ten (10) per-
sons. That six (6) of those persons shall be from the City of
McCall, four (4) of those persons shall be residents of the impact
area, and that one (1) of those impact area appointments will be
made from a list of persons recommend by the County Commissioners..
All members of the Commission will be appointed by the Mayor of the
City of McCall, with the advise and consent of the McCall City
Council.
c. That the City of McCall and Valley County will enter
into a six (6) year joint public agency agreement authorizing the
City of McCall to administer the impact area.
d. That Valley County and the City of McCall will amend
relevant ordinances to provide for the following procedures:
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1 three (3) person appellate board to be created by adoption of the
2 necessary ordinances by Valley County and the City of McCall.
3 The panel recommends that the appellate board shall con-
4 sist of three (3) members from the impact area. Two (2) of those
5 members shall be selected and appointed by the Mayor of the City
of McCall and one (1) of the members shall be selected and appointe
by the Valley County Commissioners.
e. The panel also recomme_u that the City of McCall and
Valley County shall amend the impact area zoning ordinances to
incorporate the Sewer District's design density map as a super-
seding determinant of the number of units per acre which will be
allowed within the Sewer District..
The panel recoiuinends that the Payette Lakes Homeowners
14 Association conditionally agree to enter into a stipulation with
15 the Environmental Protection Agency providing, among other things,
15 that its lawsuit against the EPA will be automatically dismissed
17 when EPA has completed its review of certain additional studies
18 to be made of the proposed collector system for the Payette Lakes
19 Water and Sewer District.
20 The undersigned do hereby agree to the foregoing declara-
21 tion of intent, and the parties hereto agree to exercise their best
22 efforts to carry the same into full force and effect at the earliest
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possible time.
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DATED this day of July, 1L,30.
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27 Mayor of t e City of McCall
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Francis Gestrin
Chairman of the Valley County
Board of Commissioners
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