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acres, and the property currently has one single family residence located on it. The area in the City of Orono directly south of this development is zoned for a 2-acre dry buildable minimum lot size with private wells and septic systems. The higher density of this urban development directly adjacent to the 2-acre zoning in Orono is an issue to be addressed. Sewer and Water Service Our understanding is that Keller Estates will have municipal water and sewer service. The water supply will be from existing municipal wells in the Medina Momingside development with the potential for a future request to connect both the Keller Estates and the Medina Momingside developments to the Orono municipal water system. There is sufficient capacity in the Orono water system should a future agreement between Orono and Medina be approved for the provision of water service to the Medina Momingside and Keller Estates developments. We also understand that this new development will have municipal sewer with a gravity sewer line discharging into the existing Medina Momingside sanitary sewer lift station. The forcemain from this lift station flows south to County Road 6 then west eventually discharging into an Orono gravity sewer in Old Crystal Bay Road. This gravity sewer then flows south and through the City of Long Lake to a Metro Waste lift station. The existing Medina Momingside sewer service through Orono and Long Lake is per the terms of an existing Long Lake/Orono/Medina sewer service agreement dated August 10, 1981. The provision of sanitary sewer service to the Keller Estates development will require modification of the 1981 sewer agreement and approval of the new agreement by the Orono, Medina and Long Lake City Councils. A project to reconfigure the existing sewer system through Orono and Long Lake for the new Highway 12 bypass project is currently under construction. This project will also require revisions to the existing three city sewer agreement. The completion of the new sewer system this summer will provide sufficient sewer capacity for new development and substantially reduce the length of Long Lake municipal sewer that is included in the sewer agreement. The new City sewer will discharge into a Metro Sewer Interceptor at Willow Drive. The only Long Lake sewer in the agreement will be from the Orono City limits to Willow Drive. There should be adequate capacity in the Orono, Long Lake, and Metro Waste sewer systems to handle the additional flow from the proposed Keller Estates development. Traffic Impact Issues Orono City staff has reviewed and discussed the traffic impacts from the proposed Keller Estates Development, and we have concerns about the increased traffic at the Willow Drive/County Road 6 intersection. Using a typical design value of 10 vehicle trips per day for each home, this development will add 210 vehicle trips per day to Willow Drive with the majority of these trips using the Willow Diive/County Road 6 intersection. Page 2 of 4 J