329.1-1. Findings.
(a) It is the declared policy of this County to preserve and protect critical public services for the benefit of the communities which depend upon them and to minimize potential conflicts between private and public land uses and facilities including sewage treatment facilities owned and operated by public agencies pursuant to the authority granted by law. It is the further intent to provide to the residents of the County proper notification in those circumstances where private land use may be impaired by the presence of nearby public facilities such as sewage treatment plants. (Ord. 2011, § 1, 10/19/1993)
(b) When private, residential land use extends into areas adjacent to existing sewage treatment plants, the operation thereof may be the subject of complaints of nuisance and other impacts due to odors. Such complaints could threaten the operation of the sewage treatment plant which serves the community. Such a threat would jeopardize the continuation of vital public services and the general welfare of the community. (Ord. 2011, § 1, 10/19/1993)
(c) Such problems can best be avoided by notifying current and future property owners of the potentially objectionable odors associated with the operation of sewage treatment plants and by making it known to all affected property owners that if property values are impaired that the financial consequences thereof shall be borne by the persons who develop property, and their purchasers, rather than by the community which depends upon the treatment plant which preexisted the development of the residential property. (Ord. 2011, § 1, 10/19/1993)