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EXHIBIT 1 <br /> Sec.78-5.-Purpose. <br /> (a) Guiding principles. <br /> (1) The city is growing in population from a rural agricultural community to a rural residential <br /> community. Use of land for residential purposes is considered primary with other uses <br /> viewed as supporting this use. While present commercial or industrial activity,where <br /> consistent with residential use and other guiding principles,will be protected by ordinance <br /> or conditional use permit, it is not the intention to expand or allow all such commercial or <br /> industrial activity to a degree where it conflicts with the primary residential use and the <br /> other guiding principles.The continued use of land for farming and similar purposes will be <br /> protected by ordinance or conditional use permit where sufficient acreage allows such use <br /> to continue without conflict with expanding residential use. <br /> (2) The maintenance of open space and the avoidance of overcrowding of land is a basic <br /> guiding principle in this plan.In addition to avoiding the ill effects of excessive,intensive land <br /> development,it is the policy to also avoid the threat to public health which occurs with <br /> excessive crowding of private sewage disposal systems on substandard building sites. <br /> (3) The city has recognized that many of the open space policies which have previously provided <br /> the basic direction of the land use policies have proven to be inadequate.It is now clear that on- <br /> site disposal systems must not be allowed on any site of less than two acres.It is now clear that <br /> the physical characteristics of the city make the extension of public services such as sewer <br /> extremely expensive and almost impossible in some areas.The city and other governmental <br /> agencies have learned that the premature development of open areas can be costly and disastrous <br /> to the environment. <br /> (4) Of paramount importance to the citizens of the city and to the citizens of the metropolitan <br /> area is the preservation of Lake Minnetonka and the wetlands that provide the only practical <br /> system of filtration and purification of the stormwater so vital to the preservation of Lake <br /> Minnetonka and the groundwater supplies in the area.The disastrous effects of intense <br /> residential and commercial development within the city,and especially in those areas <br /> adjacent to Lake Minnetonka and the wetlands,are painfully evident.The adoption of <br /> additional regulations,rezoning of certain areas and the creation of larger lot sizes in <br /> unsewered areas is mandatory in order to protect the safety,health and welfare of the citizens <br /> of the city. <br /> 6735689v1 <br />