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CMP Part 3B. Land tise Plan <br /> ReQional transportation plans have been revised since the 1970's to accommodate <br /> the increased traffic levels on HiQhway 12 throu�h Orono and LonQ Lake. A new <br /> 2-lane limited access `through' route paralleling Hiahway 12 from Orono's <br /> eastern border to the Co. Rd. 6 intersection was completed and opened to traffic in <br /> December 2008, dramatically decreasin�the traffic levels on Old Highwav 12 and <br /> providina a more attractive alternative to County Road 1� for commuters from <br /> Mound, Minnetrista and points west. Environmental and social pressures have <br /> permanently eliminated any plans for expansion of County Road 1� along the <br /> lakeshore. Orono wi11 continue to promote and implement strategies to reroute <br /> traffic away from the lakeshore areas. <br /> ReQional sewer sezvice facilities plans were revised three decades a�o in response <br /> to Orono's plans for low-density development. Oi-iginal plans called for sewering <br /> all of Orono with capacity for 37,000 people. But the final Orono-Long Lake <br /> Interceptor was relocated and is in place with a design capacity for less than 8,400 <br /> Orono residents and a limited service area. In the early 1980's, the Maple Plain <br /> Interceptor was similarly desicned to pro��ide only limited capacity for Orono. <br /> These capacity limitations are consistent �vith Orono's environmental concerns for <br /> the rural area and with MCES regional concerns includina the limited design <br /> capacity and massive environmental discharge problems associated with the <br /> central sewage collection and treatment systems. <br /> Orono's commercial and economic development has al��ay�s been centered in <br /> the historic to�i�n centers. The shopping, employment, education and social <br /> needs of Orono residents have been more than amply met by commercial facilities <br /> and shoppinQ centers located in Na��an-e and in sun-oundina communities. Rural <br /> and urban residents alike utilize these facilities and in fact, the commercial ��itality <br /> of the neiQhboring cities relies in pai-t upon the reQional seivice area that includes <br /> all of Orono. Promotion of duplicate facilities in Orono would tend to be <br /> uneconomic and counterproductive. <br /> Orono's housing plan is intended to accoinmodate all planned population <br /> gro«�th in a wide variety of h ' g opportunities. The forecast population <br /> � increase of ?.000 person in the n t twenty ye�r anslates into a housing <br /> "demand" of approxima ely 800 n dwellin` nits ��he decreasinb household <br /> sizes are taken into ac unt. is averaae of 40 ne � dwellin�s per year is <br /> consistent with or sliahtly below Orono's ra of a al new residence building <br /> peimit issuance durina the past two decades. ased on the Land Use Plan, <br /> approximately two-thirds of these new units are expected to develop in the urban <br /> area. <br /> New urban housing will be in a �•ariety of forn�s including single family homes on <br /> scattered vacant lots throughout the sewered area; planned residential <br /> developments including mixed single family and attached townhome dwelling <br /> units on �acant sewered parcels in the Navarre area and on larger parcels <br /> Cit�� of Orono Communit�� �Ianagement Plan 2008-2030 Page 3B-12 <br />