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I I I r t I I I I I I L SCOPE The content of the CSPP is intended to be sufTiciently complete so as to address the separate needs of the City, the Metropolitan Council, and the Metropolitan Waste Control Commission Council Environmental Services division. An attempt has been made to include all of the background data and issues which relate to sewer system operations and planning, including brief summaries of land use plans and planning philosophies of the City. For more detailed discussions ofthese related issues, the reader is referred to the other appropriate chapters of the Community Management Plan. Orono's CSPP will perform the following functions: Review, evaluate and consolidate other planning policies and engineering reports into an updated Comprehensive Sewer Policy Plan consistent with other elements of Orono's Community Management Plan. 2. Evaluate surface water drainage districts and their impact on sewage treatment. 3. Inventory all e.xisting public and private sewage treatment facilities. 4. Review' and incorporate community development plans with future sewage treatment needs. 5. Provide design data for metropolitan interceptor capacity. 6. Provide design guidelines for rural sewage treatment. 7. Evaluate existing ordinances and controls including recommendations for changes. 8. Evaluate existing administration and enforcement practices including recommendations for changes. The time framework of the CSPP is intended to be consistent with the regional planning period of 4988 2000 through 4998 2020, with MWCC^s programs through the year 2888; with the Water Resources Management Plan projections through 2020, and with the City's permanent planning programs for rural Orono. Tlie goals, policies and facilities plans contained in the CSPP are set in the context of the legislative mandate to plan for regional needs through the year 4998 2020 and beyond . These statistics and programs are particularly primarily applicable to the urban areas of Orono and to the municipal sanitary sewer facilities which serve or are planned to serve these areas. On the other hand, Orono’s long range land use plans call for permanent maintenance of the existing low density rural residential areas. There is to be no staged growth plan for conversion of low Jensitv residential uses to higher density residential uses, and no expansion of the existing urban serv ice area w ill occur only w ithin a few specifically planned areas. Therefore, the goals, plans and programs for on-site sewage treatment in rural Orono are intended to be permanently self-sufficient H-iffy tttp future thmimtf tm reghttal va/uteity. Potential future demands on regional capacity will CMP 6-3