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COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT PLAN: IMPACTS ON SEWER PLANNING The intent of this section of the CSPP is to provide basic community development information as it is directly related to sewer facility planning. The intent is not to duplicate the more detailed discussions included in other chapters of the Community Management Plan. Therefore, the following sections are brief summaries of the information contained elsewhere in the CMP. Historic development patterns have resulted in a city which is partially urban and partially rural. The citizens of Orono have decided t. t a long range planning objective of the City is the permanent retention of the rural community. This objective is in line with the existing developed density of the area, with the similar plans of other cities abutting the rural area, and with the legislative intent of metropolitan planning such that expensive urban services not be over extended into undeveloped areas. The urban areas of Orono will be provided with full and sufficient urban ser\ ices including municipal sanitary sewer having sufficient capacity to accommodate all projected urban development. The rural areas of Orono will be expected to remain self sufficient with each property owner responsible for providing his own on-site sewage treatment. Orono's natural resources plan provides for protection and preservation of Lake Minnetonka through control of urban storm water runoff and through retention of all natural marshlands, wetlands and drainageways. The basic goal of protecting, preserving and improving the water quality of Lake Minnetonka is to be accomplished through implementation of two basic planning principles: 1. The quality and quantity of storm water nutrient pollution is to be controlled by limiting the density of development near the shoreline and throughout the watershed, and by providing for ma.x imu m limitations on the amounts of hard surface development in relation to natural assimilative capacit>. Wetlands, marshland and natural drainagways are to be preserved and protected from encroachment as the only practical, effective and economical method of retaining and filtering nutrients from Lake Minnetonka's storm water inflow'. These principles affect urban planning and sewer facility capacity by prescribing maximum urban land use densities as utilized in the CSPP inventory of "future" sewer service demand. These principles affect rural planning by permitting rural two acre development while prohibiting total urbanization of the watershed. As discussed in the "development paradox", the extension of urban services such as sanitary sewer into the rural area would so tax the land as to require urbanization resulting in loss of wetlands and effectively an eventual degrading of Lake Minnetonka's water quality. Orono's land use plan calls for development in both the urban and the rural portions of the City. The urban area will see new residential development on the existing vacant lots and undeveloped parcels similar-to the forms of developmen t projected for the eloscr-in 3ubu rb3_at densities of 1 -3 units per acre. Urban commercial development will be restricted to neighborhood scrv ices in the existing Navarre Area and fuller utilization ofthe industrial and commercial potential near Long Lake. Overall urban density will remain relatively low because of the ecological CMP 6-14 I I I r I I