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■ * \- i* • ^ Bonolution ♦ 737 School District No. Page 2 287 WHEREAS, Orono has adopted a Comprehensive Guide Plan approved by the Metropolitan Council which establishes a 25 year plan in which Orono will continue to grow at a slow steady rate without the need for expensive interceptor sewer system within the rural service area. These interceptors have a profound effect on the demand for land development at densities required to pay for the supporting local trunk and lateral sewer systems which result in a level of urbanization that Lake Minnetonka cannot tolerate; and WHEREAS, Orono in making this consideration of the Vo-Tech request of November 8, 1976 must assess all the urban services required and that total impact on its comprehensive planning in the following areas: 1. 2. Sewers: Orono*s Comprehensive Sewer Plan dated October, 1976 IS based on the fact that Orono is partly urban and partly rural. The basis for the decision to maintain parts of Orono within the rural service area is the need to maintain the quality of storm water runoff to Lake Minnetonka. The quality of the storm water runoff degenerates as the land use densities would have to be increased to pay for the sewers. The resultant degeneration of Lake Minnetonka resulting from the urbanization, would exceed a level that the lake could tolerate. Orono*s Comprehensive Sewer Plan supports the design of the Long Lake interceptor to include capacity for existing lands in Orono presently sewered through the Long Lake sewer system. These include the Orono School, the Orono Industrial Park, twenty (20) Units for the Gagne property, and the Hackberry Hill Subdivision. Orono also has requested interceptor capacity for the existing Morningside Subdivision in Medina that can be sewered by joint cooperation through Long Lake to the interceptor, Orono foresees no future capacity to serve any other land located within the rural service areas of Medina or Orono through the Long Lake interceptor for at least 25 years. Transportation: The Orono transportation plan contained in the ComprehensiveGuide plan is based on the contention that the existing streets within the rural service area can facilitate the planned 2% growth rate within Orono and allow traffic cenerated from communities to the west passage through Orono for the next 25 years with only minor modifications. The Ring Route concept would require modification to County Roads #110, north from Mound, County Road #19, north from Spring Park and Navarre, and County Road #6, east from #110 and #19 to State Highway #12, so that the heavy commuter traffic load on County Road #15 along the shoreline of Lake Minnetonka can be re-routed north along Highway #12 and County Road #6. The Orono School complex located at the intersection of Highway #12 and Old Crystal Bay Road has already caused this intersection to be ^l^ssified by Orono as a hazardous intersection requiring a traffic light to be installed. The increased traffic load from * ^ , i \ \