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c. Cost effectiveness; <br />d. Availability and stability offunding; and, <br />e. Community desires . <br />10. Public utilities and facilities should be located, designed, and operated to be compatible <br />with neighboring uses. <br />11. Utility structures such as telephone exchange buildings, telecommunications towers, <br />transformers stations, sewage treatment plants, and solid waste facilities should adjoin <br />nonresidential uses wherever possible. Mitigation measures to minimize scenic impacts <br />should be required. <br />7.1.2 Utilities <br />1. Utility special district comprehensive plans and proposals should support and be consistent <br />with land use plans. <br />2. Utilities should be designed, located and constructed to minimize adverse environmental <br />impacts and to protect valuable environmental features. <br />3. Where utilities are inadequate to serve existing development necessary improvements <br />should be provided. Utility capital improvement programs should give priority to improving <br />present systems with significant inadequacies. <br />4. Whenever possible, utilities should make joint use of utility or road rights-of-way . <br />Underground utilities should be grouped together and easily accessible for maintenance, <br />repair and additions. <br />5. Underground installation of power and telephone wires should be required, where feasible, <br />particularly in newly developing areas. <br />6. If underground installation is not feasible due to an engineering or geologic problem, above- <br />ground utility installations should be designed and located to minimize unsightly views and <br />environmental impacts. Power and telephone poles should be as far from rightof-way <br />center lines as possible . <br />7. Utilities should be located within rights-of-way. <br />7.1.3 Water Service <br />1. The District should be encouraged to include conservation measures in their plans as <br />appropriate, as well as development of new sources; to support planned land uses with <br />reliable service at minimum cost; and to assure maximum net benefit in allocating water for <br />fisheries, navigation, hydroelectric power and recreation, as well as domestic and <br />commercial uses. <br />7.1.4 Sewage Treatment and Disposal <br />1. Public sewers should be the only method for wastewater treatment for new development. <br />Kittitas County <br />Comprehensive Plan <br />December 2016