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is compatible with the neighborhood and with local environmental constraints. Multiple family developments generally will not be considered appropriate for lands within 1,000 feet of Lake Minnetonka nor for areas such as Navarre that have limited transportation access to outside employment or shopping facilities. Increased density housing alternatives will be primarily developed along Orono’s Highway 12 corridor in specifically identified areas that are or will be served by urban services. I I I 3. 4. 5. 6. Urban density residential development must occur within the existing deflned Urban Serv ice Area. Orono's Community Management Plan is not a staged growth plan. The Urban Serv ice Area as defined in this Plan will not be expanded into the defined rural area and urban services and facilities will not be extended into the rural area for purposes of fostering or allowing increased development in those areas. Urban density residential development will utilize existing or planned public services and facilities. New residential development will be allowed to infill existing vacant properties within the Urban Service Area consistent with environmental limitations and with the existing or planned capacities of water, sewer, drainage, transportation and recreational facilities. New development will not b-* permitted to overburden these services at the expense of the existing users. New urban development will not be permitted if it requires additional unplanned local or regional facilities capacity. The city will promote scattered site development as opposed to large scale tract development within the existing developed urban area. Scattered site development has less impact on the existing neighborhoods or on the existing jj’iblic facilities capacities than does a concentration of development at one location. In addition, most of Orono's existing urban neighborhoods are a homogenous mix of newer and older homes intermingled with an occasional vacant lot ora larger, divisible lot. There is no single neighborhood which is in need of complete renewal or rehabilitation. Therefore, there is no need for nor any economical way of assembling a large tract of property for single-project development. The City will promote rchabilitutioii of existing older or substandard homes. Whereas there is no identifiable block of deteriorated housing in the City, there are a substantial number of older homes or converted cottages that are in need of repair, energy conservation measures, or major rehabilitation. In man; cases, these-homes arc occupied by low income or fixed income persons who cannot undertake the needed work within their means. The Citv’ will promote private and subsidized public rehabilitation efforts to improve the existing housing stock, to improve and maintain the neighborhoods, and most importantly to improve the living conditions of the affected citizens. CMP 3C - 23