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5. Expansion of the MUSA to allow sewering of existing neighborhoods or developing lakeshore properties within the Rural Service Area, is not an expansion of the Urban Service Area. ^ Provision of municipal sewer to existing neighborhoods or developing lakeshore properties within the Rural Service Area will not result in new development or redevelopment at densities inconsistent with Rural Service Area standards. Provision of municipal sewer to properties in the Rural Service Area will not result in the rezoning of neighborhoods or individual properties to allow urban density development. 7. Additional rural development will occur in the designated Rural Service Area. Additional rural residential and auasi-agriculturai development can occur in the rural areas without taxing the limited capacities of existing rural services. Rural development will occur at limited densities consistent with self-supporting on-site sewer and water services and with maintenance of natural amenities, open space and other rural community characteristics. ^ Sewering of the urban area was necessar>’. The character and historic density of land use in the e.xisting urban area of Orono, coupled with its general proximity to Lake Minnetonka both required and economically justified the installation of sanitary sewer to alleviate existing health and environmental problems. 9i9. All urban property will be served. The City will provide a municipal sanitaiy sewer collection system to all developed properties in the urban area. 4i 10. Urban sewage will be carried out of the watershed for treatment. Consistent with requirements of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, Orono's municipal sewer system will be is connected to the metropolitan interceptor for ultimate treatment at MVVCC's Blue Lake Treatment Plant. Si IjL Sufficient capacity will be provided for all planned development. The municipal sewer facilities and metropolitan interceptor flowage reserve will be designed with sufficient capacity to accommodate existing users and proposed development of Orono's urban area at the existing zoned density. S: 12. The existing urban area will not be expanded beyond the revised boundaries proposed in this plan. Orono's Community Management Plan Is not a staged growth plan. The urban service area will not be expanded into the rural area. Municipal sanitary sewers will not be e.\tended into the rural area for purposes of fostering or allowing increased development density in those areas, and will only be extended to provide service to specifically identified lakeshore areas to serve e.xisting neighborhoods or new development at currently zoned de nsities, or to solve sewage treatment problems in existing neighborhoods where on-site systems are determined to be not practical or feasible on a lonu-term basis. li Excess sewer capacity will not be required. The ultimate density of Orono's urban development is determined by the environmental constraints of proximity to Lake Minnetonka. The fixed location of urban development is determined by wetlands prescr\ation and the permanent viability of the rural community. Taken together these CMP 6-18 I I I I I 1 ] 1 1 I 1 I I I I 1 I I I