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Telephone 473-7.’l57 CITYof ORONO Poet Office Bo« 6<i*CryeUl Bey. MinnceoU 55323* Municipal OfTicee On the North Shore of Lake Minnetonka November 13* 1979 Honorable Jerry Mevissen, Mayor Mr. Vern Genzlinger, Planning Commission Chairman Council and Planning Commission Members City of Independence Rt. He Box 123A Maple Plain, MN 55359 Dear Mayor Mevissen and Chairman Genzlinger: Thank you for providing the City of Orono the opportunity to review and comment on your proposed Comprehensive Plan. The goals and plans of Independence appear to be consistent with and supportive of those of Orono. We agree that agriculture or quasi-agricultural uses are important to our area and that spreading urban density is definitely an exclusionary type of land use which destroys the social fabric of a rural community. We too believe that low density rural-residential land use should be an acceptable permanent use, especially on the type of land in our area. Your continued reliance on the rural centers of other municipalities for urban-type services is the same philosophy as ours - shared services without unnecessary, uneconomic duplication. Your existing (and proposed) 5 acre residential zoning is identical with our existing zoning on the area which is expected to r^ain the same. Orono is not presently considering a 1 to 40 agricultural zone because we do not have the active agricultural uses that you have. As for transportation, Orono does not now foresee any major re construction or relocation of highway 12. As you know, however, we are currently completing a new road connecting County 19 with County 6 which we expect will improve route choices in the area and also attract drivers away from Lake Minnetonka and County 15 We have yet to see what effect this will have on the County's plans for 110 and 19. i ^ 1 I