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�OA4�'CO 2; •G (SAsacu •` w�.. C� •. % 4�%FORS ORAFTJ December 8, 2000 4rroRNcoNtC/o TO: AL OLSEN Ff•/C FA/r Environmental Health Division �lFNr FROM: EDWARD R. BURROUGHS CiF Deputy County Counsel RE: APPLICATION OF SEPTIC SYSTEM STANDARDS You asked me to review a deviation request for 1007 East Weatherbee Avenue, Manteca, with regard to the applicability of your division's Sewage Standards. I have reviewed the Sewage Standards and related ordinances and statutes and my opinion follows. The applicant has requested of Community Development a deviation in the rear setback requirement from thirty(30) feet to twenty-one (2 1) feet due to the location of an oak tree on the property. As a matter of routine, the request was sent to Environmental Health for review prior to action by Community Development. Your recommendation on the deviation request is not, as I understand it, an approval of the septic system on the property. That approval would come by separate application after the deviation request is approved. The information from the deviation request shows that the applicant proposes to build a new house on the property. The house would be 1800 square feet, but with no more than 1100 square feet on the ground floor. The plans show three bedrooms and an office. Ray Borges from your division reviewed the deviation request and returned it to Community Development with a notation that Environmental Health Division had no objection to the deviation request but would require a 1600+ gallon septic tank. A notation on the Land Use report that Mr. Borges reviewed states that the office is a potential fourth bedroom. It appears that Mr. Borges made that notation. A neighbor has addressed concerns to your Division regarding this new home. The neighbor has two specific concerns: (1) 1800 square feet exceeds the maximum size of a home that is allowed under your Sewage Standards for this size lot; and (2) the office could DK sm