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CMP Part 3B. Land [ise Plan in the rural area. 2. Orono's rural service area provides the opportunity for quasi- agricultural land uses. Greenhouses,orchards,truck farms, riding stables and recreation areas sueh as large golf courses and park reserves are not possible in more erowded urban areas but they are compatible with rural residential properiies. Thus, the total commercial activity of Orono is broader and more varied than if the City were all urban or all rural. 3. Rural density is limited by natural conditions. Development of rural Orono is naturally limited by a number of conditions including extensive wetlands, steep slopes and areas of high water table, which factors influence building locations and transportation options as well as the location and spacing of on-site sewage treatment systems which rely on soil treatment of sewage effluent. 4. The existing rural area will not be urbanized. Orono's Community Management Plan is not a staged growth plan. Exeept in limited cases as identified in this plan, �the urban service area will not be expanded into the rural area. Municipal urban services will not be extended into the rural area or across open, rural lands. Rural land uses and rural land use density will be maintained at a level to ensure that private on-site sewer systems will operate satisfactorily and that rural wetlands and drainage�vays ��ill not be overloaded with storm water nutrient pollution. 5. Rural land uses and densities do not require urban services. Urban services are not compatible with rural land use. Eatension of certain urban services, such as extensive public road maintenance or municipal sewer or ��ater eannot be economically,justified or easily provided to developments in rural areas or at rural densities. 6. Rural land uses do not require municipal sewer service. Orono's soil, topography and low-density rural land use provide the ingredients necessan� to assure safe, adequate, permanent on-site sewage treatment and waste water disposal without hazard to ground water. surface water or the public health. Extension of sewer service to properties in the rural area will be avoided, except when necessary to protect the public health, or to avoid or eliminate negative impacts to surface and groundwaters. Future expansions of the sewer system into the Rural Area to solve existing neighborhood sewage treatment problems or along the lakeshore to avoid or eliminate potential negative impacts on lake water quality, will not result in a reclassification of those neighborhoods from Rural to Urban. Expansion of the se��er system into the Rural Area will not result in the provision of additional urban services, nor will it result in changes to allowed development densities. Cit� of Orono Communih Management Plan 2008-2030 Page 3B-22