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SCOPE <br />The time framework of the Land Use Plan is intended to be consistent with the <br />regional planning period of 198 0 thro ugh 1999 2000 through 2020 and with the <br />City's permanent planning policy for rural Orono. The goals, policies and land <br />use plans contained in this Chapter are set in the context of the legislatively mandated <br />Metropolitan f.and Planning Act which was amended in 1995 to include a <br />requirement for decennial review of local plans to ensure that local fiscal devices and <br />local controls are consistent with the plan, and to respond to recent changes in the <br />regional system plans to plan fo r regional needs -through the year V990 . This is <br />particularly relevant to the urbanized sections of the City. The goals, plans and <br />programs for rural Orono, however, are established because of the environmental <br />sensitivity of the area and because of the rural citizen's desire for a permanent rural <br />community. <br />Orono's long range land use plans call for permanent maintenance of the existing low <br />density rural residential areas. There is to be no staged growth plan and no <br />expansion of the existing urban service area. Consequently, Orono's rural land use <br />plans and the location of the Metropolitan Urban Scn'icc Area boundary between <br />Orono's Urban and Rural Areas as shown on Map No. are intended to be <br />permanently applicable beyond the arbitraiy planning date of 1990 2Q2Q- This <br />commitment is particularly important to the many Orono citizens who arc making <br />private investments based upon this concept and who are entitled to know that they <br />can rely on this Plan. <br />1 <br />CMP 3B - 3