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A RESOLUTION APPROVING <br />AMENDMENT OF THE <br />2000*2020 CITY OF ORONO <br />COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT PLAN <br />WHEREAS, the City of Orono is a municipal corporation located within Hennepin <br />County and within the planning jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Council; and <br />WHEREAS, in accordance with the Metropolitan Land Planning Act of 1976 and <br />its amendments, and with Minnesota Statutes Chapters 462 and 473, the City of Orono in November <br />2001 adopted a comprehensive municipal plan known as the 2000-2020 City of Orono Community <br />Management Plan (also referred to as the 2000-2020 CMP) to provide for the orderly development <br />of the City. An integral element of the 2000-2020 CMP is the Comprehensive Sewer Policy Plan, <br />which identifies certain areas of the City as being within the Metropolitan Urban Service Area <br />(MUSA) in which connections to the metropolitan sanitary sewer system are allowed; and <br />WHEREAS, the City received a request from a property owner on Old Long Lake <br />Road to provide municipal sewer to an existing property that is not buildable without municipal <br />sewer. Subsequent review by the City indicated the potential need to construct municipal sewer to <br />serv'e an existing neighborhood of eight developed lots in the RR-1B Zoning District, five of which <br />are substandard in area based on the 2-acre minimum lot size requirement of the RR-1B District and <br />WHEREAS, on January' 13, 2003 the City Council voted 5-0 to direct that a <br />Comprehensive Plan Amendment process be initiated to amend the MUS.A as adopted in the 2000- <br />2020 CMP to incorporate certain Old Long Lake Road properties into the MUSA; and <br />WHEREAS, pursuant to published and mailed legal notice to the affected property <br />owners, on February 19, 2003 the Planning Commission held a public hearing and subsequently <br />recommended approval of the proposed CMP amendment: and <br />WHEREAS, on February 24, 2003 the City Council voted 5-0 to conditionally <br />approve 2000-2020 CMP Amendment /H adding certain properties along Old Long Lake Road to <br />the defined Metropolitan Urban Serv ice Area subject to review and comment by the Metropolitan <br />Council; and <br />Page 1 of 3