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~"1arch 20, 1985 Dear Developers working with the City of San Marcos have been aware of the difficulties facing the community in handling growth. In an effort to avoid a total disruption in the local economy, but mindful of the need to protect the San Marcos River, the City devised a plan to provide wastewater treatment capacity while a new 6.25 million gallon per day treatment plant was being constructed. The plan was successful in genera ting funds needed to construct t\<lO package plants enabling the City to provide capacity for those fronting the cost of the improvements. In an attempt to be as fair as possible, a lottery was held to select the priority list. Unfortunately, most of the projects selected for the first 2000 LUE's (Living Unit Equivalents) have not proceeded with development. At the same time, substantial interest in development in San Marcos continued to increase. Many of the parties ready for development were not on any priority list. The plan failed to provide a means of allowing projects most ready for development to proceed with construction. Most of the people involved with the situation agreed the allocation plan had to be al tered: the question was how. To address the problem, City staff held meetings with developers to solicit their ideas. While no consenus was reached, the various viewpoints were reported to City Council. Based on this information, the Council decided to set the following policy for allocation of the remaining 4,200 LUE's of capacity of the City's approved permit. The City of San Marcos will provide wastewater capacity on a first come, first serve basis. Capacity will be provided by the construction of additional package plants, which will be financed by the City. Development projects will obtain capacity at the time of the issuance of a building pennit, whereupon all capital recovery fees will be due and payable. The interim wastewater