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Date Application Received: June 17, 2019 <br />Date Application Considered as Complete: June 19, 2019 <br />60 -Day Review Period Expires: August 18, 2019 <br />To: Chair Ressler and Planning Commission Members <br />Dustin Rief, City Administrator <br />From: Jeremy Barnhart, Community Development Director <br />Date: July 15, 2019 <br />Subject: #LA19-000047, Scott Gates o/b/o Kruckeberg Real Estate Holdings LLC, 4400 <br />Deering Comprehensive Plan Amendment: Expand Metropolitan Urban Service <br />Area <br />Public Hearing <br />Application Summary: The applicant is requesting modification to the 2040 Community <br />Management Plan, expanding the Metropolitan Urban Service Area (MUSA) boundary to <br />incorporate Deering Island. <br />Staff Recommendation: Planning Department Staff recommends approval as proposed. <br />Background <br />The applicant, representing the owner, is requesting incorporation of Deering island into the city <br />of Orono's MUSA boundary. This expansion would allow them to be served by municipal <br />sanitary sewer services. Service would be provided by the City of Mound. <br />Deering Island is a 2.79 acre island located in West Arm Bay about 460 feet from land within the <br />city of Mound. The property owner of Deering Island also owns the most adjacent parcel in <br />Mound, through which a service line would be extended, connecting to Mounds system. <br />This project was the subject of a concept review in February, 2019, which was generally <br />supported. Minutes from that meeting are attached as Exhibit F. A formal application to amend <br />the Community Management Plan could not be processed until the Met Council approved the <br />plan, which occurred in June, 2019. <br />