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The Kent County Levy Court held a workshop on October 13, 2026, at 6:30 PM in the Caucus Room at 555 Bay Road, Dover, DE. The primary agenda item was Ordinance LC26-16, which proposes amending the county code to permit sewer extensions outside the Kent County Growth Zone for properties that were not provided laterals during the original installation. The discussion focused heavily on a specific vacant lot at Pickering Beach but expanded to questions of countywide policy, system capacity, and procedural precedent.
Thank you. You're not going to yell maybe sit here, are you? Oh, yeah. Oh, I might. It depends on if you behave or not. She's demonstrated what she can. Oh no, I know. Carries a whip. Get out of the courtroom. You've done talking. This meeting is too hazard in summarizing. Hey, Joe. Final workshop. Do you see what it was for you? Read what it was about. 6:30 on Tuesday, October 13th, 2026, Kent County Levy Court Workshop is called to order. We're in the caucus room, and with that, I will turn it over to our county administrator, Kevin Seppel. Thank you, Madam President. This workshop's being held in person at 555 Bay River, Dover Dollar in the Caucus Room. We're also making it available via the internet through WebX. Participants can join us by phone or by computer during the meeting. Workshops are an opportunity for levy court commissioners to publicly discuss policies. Among themselves and with staff. Participation is normally limited to the commissioners and staff. There will be an opportunity for public comment for those attending in person, we're in line. When the president opens the public comment period, those attending in person may raise their hand if you recognize. Thank you. We do have seven commissioners. So with that, and I know we're short on time here, but with that, I will turn it over to Sam because I think it's important when Sam speaks and Sarah speaks that we all have an understanding of exactly what it is we're looking at. With that, I'll turn it over to Sam. Thank you. Uh yes, Madam President. Uh good evening, Commissioners. The uh item before you is in regards to an uh amendment to the um the code and um ordinance L C 2616. Um, as you know, uh infrastructure has been built outside of the Kent County growth zone. And at the time that this uh infrastructure was built, there were some lots that were included and some lots that were not included due to the fact that they were either vacant or people did not want to opt into uh the district. So to address those issues, this um ordinance was uh uh created and uh there are uh certain criteria that these lots and owners to um address uh and uh and uh qualify for and so we made sure that uh we could look at these lots, uh analyze them, uh you know, determine the viability of these lots being entered into the uh sewer district and uh and we also um brought this ordinance to the sewer advisory board and um the sewer advisory board did approve it to come to levy court for um for this hearing. So uh so at this time we're if you want me to go through all the different criteria I could, but um since it's a short on time, I could just point out the highlights or highlight I think what's important here is that uh there may be a misnomer here is this young lady has not applied to Denwak for a permit. She contacted somebody on the outside that did some investigation work and found out that the land that she has really is not suitable uh for sewer system, but she could do a peace type system as opposed to even connectivity with the county. Um I believe Andy found that information out today. She had contracted with. So I think it's important for people to know that there is a process that you're supposed to follow my correct same. That's correct. Regardless of whether you want to come into county sewer or not, there is a process with Denw. So I know at least when I work with Mayor Town of Smyrna, you had to follow, which is obviously the same thing there. Before I ask Sarah to bring her thoughts forward and and look to commissioners for your input.