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j <br />i <br />.* <br />HOUSING JUNE, 1980 <br />‘(•VI •«« • •it <br />I <br />i <br />j <br />1 <br />j <br />i <br />1 <br />1 <br />1 <br />I <br />BASIC HOUSING CONCEPTS AND PRTNCIPI FS <br />THE HOUSING IMPROVEMENT PLAN IS AN INTEGRAL PART OF ORONO'S COMMUNITY <br />MANAGEMENT PLAN. ALTHOUGH THE STATISTICS AND DETAILED POLICIES APPLY <br />SPECIFICALLY TO THIS ONE ELEMENT OF COMMUNITY PLANNING, THE OVERALL GOALS <br />AND OBJECTIVES HAVE BEEN DERIVED FROM JOINT AND CONCURRENT CONSIDERATION <br />OF ALL COMMUNITY PLANNING ELEMENTS. THEREFORE, THE POLICY DECISIONS <br />RELATING TO ORONO'S HOUSING IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS COMPLEMENT AND BALANCE <br />REGIONAL PLANS WITH LOCAL CONCERNS FOR HISTORIC DEVELOPMENT PATTERNS, <br />ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, PUBLIC HEALTH, FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY AND <br />GENERAL LAND USE. <br />' * <br />ORONO'S URBAN AND RURAL AREAS PROVIDE DISTINCTLY DIFFERENT LIFESTYLES, <br />AMENITIES AND SERVICES WHICH JOINTLY BENEFIT THE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE. <br />EACH AREA HAS SEPARATE PLANNING PRIORITIES AND SEPARATE ENVIRONMENTAL <br />CONSIDERATIONS. URBAN AREAS AND URBAN SERVICES WILL NOT BE PERMITTED <br />TO ENCROACH ON OR DESTROY THE RURAL AREA OF THE CITY. <br />Historic development patterns established 100 years ago are responsible <br />for the dual personality that characterizes Orono. The lure of the <br />Lake drew summer residents and resorters who established the crossroads <br />of Navarre, which continues to this day as the commercial center of Orono. <br />away from the Lake, Orono has developed slowly as a community <br />of rural residential woodlands and open space. The lifestyles are <br />different, the needs and desires of the citizens are different and the <br />requirements for public services are different from the urban area of <br />Orono. <br />Orono's urban areas provide ample opportunity for a vast spectrum of <br />housing opportunities and all of the neighborhood services necessary to <br />support the residents of the City, urban and rural alike. These areas <br />contain most of Orono's existing housing stock and most of the existing <br />substandard housing stock. <br />Orono's rural areas provide the opportunity for low density housing at <br />affordable prices, orchards, greenhouses, hobby farms and recreation areas <br />not possible in either urban areas or in commercial agricultural areas. <br />This low density of land use is particularly valuable as a protection <br />for the marshlands, woodlands and other natural resources that dot the <br />area. Here, housing is often as old as in the urban areas but the overall <br />density is low and no urban services are available. <br />CMP 5-3