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an has ble m s 1 1L 0- •1 u'41� powwow 'l o.6r j•hi.4 � • � : 'S:i 1 CITY of ORONO Post Office Box 66 • Crya al Hay, Minnemita W123 • Municipal Offkm On the North .short, of Luke Minnetonka December 10, 1976 Mr. John Boland, Chairman Metro Council 300 Metro Square Ste Paul, Minnesota 55101 Dear John: This letter is in response to your letter of November 22, 1976, forwarding the preliminary draft of. the Metro System Statement for Orono. The Council has asked me to make this reply informal, in keeping with the request of the metro Council Staff indications at the recent area meeting in Medina. Orono is a supporter of Metro Council goals involving the need for consistency between local plans and Metro systems. As your staff is probably well aware have devoted considerable time, money and effort to make Orono's .-omprutiensive Plan a reasonable one in relation to areawide plans. It is because of this involvement that the following inconsisten- cies give us considerable concern: 1. Orono and .Long Lake are logically put in one System Statement but Minnetonka Beach is left out. Since Minnetonka Beach is like Long bake, a municipality completely .encircled by Orono, it's difficult to see how it's systems statement can be dealt with separately. Is this an oversight? 2 e Your letter of the l 2 nd specifically limits the systems statement to the four Metro Systems cited. Then the statement, itself, expands the area of mandatory planning to housing, On which statement do we place reliance? 3. In this specific area of development, the statement says, "The Council's major aim is for the sum total of local plans to accommodate the region's urban growth in a manner that can be served by existing and planned metropolitan systems without overloading them." • 4. 5. 6.