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Local business owner urges council to ease ERU moratorium or allow alternative wastewater treatment for job-creating industrial development
Summary
Joseph Gambino, an industrial developer and property owner in Sandy, asked council to modify the sewer-connection moratorium so ERUs can transfer across use types or to approve alternative treatment systems to enable his project to proceed. Staff said both paths could be researched but saw no council consensus to change the moratorium tonight.
Joseph Gambino, a local business owner and applicant for development near Fred Meyer in Sandy, used public comment time to ask the council to pursue two possible solutions to the city’s sewer-connection moratorium: (1) modify moratorium rules to permit ERU (equivalent residential unit) transfers across use types, or (2) enable alternative wastewater-treatment systems so commercial and industrial projects could obtain needed capacity.
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