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RURAL SEWAGE TREATMENT POLICIES <br />1. <br />2. <br />3. <br />4. <br />5. <br />6. <br />7. <br />The Rural Service Area is fixed. Orono's Rural Ser\ ice Area is fixed by this and other <br />elements of the Community Management Plan and is legally described by Resolution of the <br />City Council as shown on map No.___(see also the CSPP Appendix). <br />The boundary bet^veen Orono*s urban and rural service areas is not strictly defined <br />by the MUSA boundary. The boundary' between Orono's Urban and Rural serv ice areas is <br />defined bv the density of development and level of public services intended to be provided. <br />Orono will not define its Urban and Rural service areas based merely on whether municipal <br />sewer is provided. The MUSA boundary has been amended bv the Citv in the past to allow <br />for retrofitting of existing Rural Service Area neighborhoods with municipal sewer, to solve <br />existing sewage treatment problems. In these areas, the zoning has not chanced to allow for <br />additional development at urban densities, and urban services other than sewer have not been <br />provided. Provision of municipal sewer service to existing neighborhoods within the Rural <br />Service Area has not changed their classification from Rural to Urban. <br />Future expansions of the sewer system into the Rural Service Area to solve existing <br />neighborhood sewage treatment problems or along the lakeshore to avoid or eliminate <br />potential negative impacts on lake water quality, will not result in a reclassification of <br />those neighborhoods from Rural to Urban. Expansion ofthe sewer system into the Rural <br />Service Area will not result in the provision of additional urban services, nor will it result <br />in changes to allowed development densities. <br />Additional urban development will occur only in the designated Urban Service Area. <br />Additional urban development will occur in the urbanized areas consistent with the <br />capacities of the existing urban .services and at limited densities consistent with all <br />environmental constraints. <br />Expansion of the MUSA to allow sewering of existing neighborhoods or developing <br />lakeshore properties within the Rural Service Area, is not an expansion of the Urban <br />Serv ice Area. <br />Provision of municipal sewer to existing neighborhoods or developing lakeshore <br />properties within the Rural Service Area will not result in new development or <br />redevelopment at densities inconsistent with Rural Service Area standards. Provision <br />of municipal sewer to properties in the Rural Service Area will not result in the rezoningof <br />neighborhoods or individual properties to allow urban density development. <br />Additional rural development will occur in the designated Rural Service Area. <br />Additional rural residential and quasi-agricuUural development can occur in the rural areas <br />without taxing the limited capacities of e.xistinu niral services. Rural development will <br />occur at limited densities consistent witiT self-sunnorting on-site sewer and water serv ices <br />and with maintenance of natural amenities, open space and other rural community ’ <br />characteristics. <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />CMP 6-20