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CMP Part 3B. Land Use Plan <br /> THE LAND USE PLAN <br /> Map 3B-2 indicates the basic land use plan of the City: the designation of <br /> Orono's 'Urban Area' and Orono's 'Rural Area'. The detailed location of the <br /> dividing line between the Urban Area and the Rural Area was established b.y <br /> careful evaluation of each of the elements of the 1980 Community Management <br /> Plan, and has undergone only minor revisions in the ensuing �e three decades. <br /> Environmental concerns, historic land use patterns, and the availability of sewer, <br /> transportation and other public facilities all entered into the local decision of <br /> where to draw the line between Orono's Urban and Rural areas. <br /> The primary element defining the. difference between Orono's Urban and <br /> Rural areas is future development density. The Urban areas have been planned <br /> for densities of 1 or more dwelling units per acre. The Rural areas have been <br /> planned for densities of no greater than 1 unit per 2 acres. The majority of Orono's <br /> land area is designated as Rural in order to meet the City's environmental goals. <br /> Orono's Urban Area also identifies those portions of the City that have been or are <br /> planned to be provided with the wider range of public services and facilities <br /> necessary to support urban types and densities of land use. Orono's Rural Area <br /> identifies those portions of the City that do not have a wide range of urban <br /> services and are not planned to be provided with such services. <br /> 1996 REGIONAL BLUEPRINT. <br /> The Metropolitan Council in its 1996 Regional Blueprint �as defined the "Urban <br /> Area" as that part of the region "actively becoming urbanized and within which <br /> local and regional services are committed during specific time periods", the outer <br /> boundary of which �s was identified by the Metropolitan Urban Service Area <br /> (MUSA) line. Additionally, the Metropolitan Council �as established a "One- <br /> unit-per-l0-acres" threshold defining a gross area-wide density level, above <br /> which development becomes more suburban than rural in character. <br /> The "'��*r^„�'�*^^ �'^��^^�' �^ �*c 1996 Regional Blueprint �as also established a <br /> goal of accommodating all expected Metro area urban development for the next <br /> 40 years within the confines of the "Urban Reserve", a roubhly concentric <br /> boundary ranging from 1 to 10 miles outside the then current Year 2000 MUSA. <br /> Virtually all of rural Orono that �s was not within the current MUSA, �s was <br /> within the Urban Reserve; and most of Orono's Urban Reserve area �s was within <br /> the portion anticipated by Met Council to be brought within the MUSA by 2020 <br /> �' . In order to meet the projected development demand within the <br /> Urban Reserve, Metropolitan Council #as in 1996 determined that the Urban <br /> Reserve should be developed at densities higher than those historically occurring <br /> at the urban-rural fringe. <br /> City of Orono Community Management Plan 2008-2030 Page 3B-26 <br />