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[>ns <br />H <br />I i <br />th <br />! \ <br />CITY <br />OF <br />ORONO <br />n Tf*l^phon<* 47.‘5*7*i*>7 <br />CITY of ORONO <br />Post Offiet* Box <)«• Crystal Hay. Minnesota 55.T2.J* Municipal Offices <br />On the North Shore of Lake Minnetonka <br />December 10, 1976 <br />, j <br />I . <br />Mr. John Boland, Chairman <br />Metro Council <br />300 Metro Square <br />St. Paul, Minnesota 55101 <br />Dear John: <br />• <br />This letter is in response to your letter of November 22, 1976, <br />forwarding the preliminary draft of the Metro System Statement <br />for Orono. The Council has asked me to make this reply informal, <br />in keeping with the request of the Metro Council Staff indications <br />at the recent area meeting in Medina. <br />Orono is a supporter of Metro Council goals involving the need <br />for consistency between local plans and Metro systems. As your <br />staff is probably well aware, we have devoted considerable time, <br />money and effort to make Orono*s Comprehensive Plan a reasonable <br />one in relation to areawide plans. <br />It is because of this involvement that the following inconsisten­ <br />cies give us considerable concern: <br />1. Orono and Long Lake are logically put in one System <br />Statement but Minnetonka Beach is left out. Since <br />Minnetonka Beach is like Long Lake, a municipality <br />completely encirclc^d by Orono, it's difficult to <br />see how it's systems statement can be dealt with <br />separately. Is this an oversight? <br />2. Your letter of the 22nd specifically limits the <br />systems statement to the four Metro Systems cited. <br />Then the statement, itself, expands the area of <br />mandatory planning to housing. On which statement <br />do we place reliance? <br />3. In this specific area of development, the statement <br />says, "The Council's major aim is for the sum total <br />of local plans to accommodate the region's urban <br />growth in a manner that can be served by existing and <br />planned metropolitan systems without overloading them." <br />* u <br />I