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77 <br /> Disadvantages: <br /> • Some people won't be able to take advantage of incentives that other folks can <br /> • Concern a lot equitable distribution of user fees, e.g. give credit for on -site development <br /> RESPONSIBILITY/ AUTHORITY /ACCOUNTABILITY/M <br /> Management Guideline - Planning decisions should provide specific direction for determining <br /> responsibility, performance, and on -going maintenance obligations for on -site controls. <br /> Advantages: <br /> • Provide a much clearer understanding of maintenance responsibility (public vs. private) <br /> through better education <br /> • Promote individual responsibility <br /> • Forces developer to address issue head on instead of an after- thought <br /> • Forces development to incorporate design mechanisms into their design <br /> • City has more control over the development <br /> • Focus more debate on regulations, leading to better regulations <br /> • May provide critical mass necessary to revisit some existing codes; e.g. plumbing <br /> • Opportunity to better quantify improvements in targeted pollutants (pollutants are diffuse in <br /> public system; can deal with better on site -by -site) <br /> Disadvantages;. <br /> • Assessment of system design for pollutant removal can be difficult <br /> • Private on -site systems would create issues, e.g. new property owners may purchase without <br /> realizing the system is their responsibility <br /> • City will be involved = put a cap on what can be done <br /> • Difficult to communicate to individual homeowners their responsibility to make them follow <br /> through <br /> • Lack of overall management structure for smaller systems <br /> • Difficult for staff to know how well controls function because we aren't responsible for <br /> maintenance <br /> • If voluntary there are limitations to what we can do <br /> • Increase in disputes between property owners - increase demand on city to mediate - <br /> increasertaff time r - <br /> • Currently inter - property spots Re: drainage's, is a real problem area Re: complaints. City <br /> has had to step in and "fix -it" to solve disputes <br /> • The city loses any control once building permit is approved, e.g. no way to assure <br /> repair /after maintenance a flood event <br /> • If private owner doesn't maintain system - creates downstream maintenance problem and <br /> enforcement problem <br /> A -3 <br />