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3. <br />4. <br />To maintain our local character and identity. <br />To protect and preserve our many natural resources including all lakes, <br />creeks, marshes, wetlands, woodlands, groundwater and steep slopes. <br />5. <br />6. <br />7. <br />To preserve open space, light, air and solar access for all citizens. <br />To protect the general public health, safet}' and welfare. <br />To promote development in the City at densities consistent with <br />environmental protection and the planned land use pattern. <br />8.To protect the financial stability of the City, providing an adequate level <br />of services at minimal cost to the taxpayer. <br />ORONO^S PI^NNING POLICIES <br />1.Future development will be guided to protect and enhance the Lake <br />Minnetonka watershed. Lake Minnetonka has local and regional <br />significance as a vital ingredient in human experience and in the quality of <br />life of all Orono residents. <br />2.Urbanization will not be expanded into the existing rural areas. O ono's <br />Community Management Plan is njjl a staged growth plan, and therefore the <br />Urban Service area will not be expanded into the Rural Service Area. Urban <br />services will nol be expanded into the Rural Service Area. <br />3.The existing Urban Service Area is fixed. Orono's Urban Service Area <br />is fixed by the various elements of the Community Management Plan, and is <br />legally described as shown on Map No.__. <br />3A.The boundary between Orono's urban and rural service areas is not <br />strictly defined by the MUSA boundary. The boundary between Orono's <br />Urban and Rural service areas is defined by the density of development <br />and level of public services intended to be provided. Orono will not define <br />its Urban and Rural service areas based merely on whether municipal ,<iewer <br />is provided. The MUSA boundary has been am'^nded by the City in the past <br />to allow for retrofitting of existing Rural Service Area neighborhoods with <br />municipal sewer, to solve existing sewage treatment problems. In these areas, <br />the zoning has uoL changed to allow for additional development at urban <br />densities, and urban services other than sewer have noL been provided. <br />Provision of municipal sewer service to existing neighborhoods within the <br />Rural Service Area has not changed their classification from Rural to Urban. <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I \ <br />I <br />1 <br />i i <br />1 <br />■ m it"B ii ni rtia 1 ail I 111 • ai ft'Hi