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R>o c k' <br />proposing. In return for that, we are offering a very large amenity <br />package and we feel that this is the way the development should be done <br />and we feel that its the best development for the City of Orono. We are <br />adding seven lots, lots that nobody is going to see; lots that we feel are <br />necessary to make this thing feasible. <br />McDonald - Feasible, what? I mean why <br />Bastyr - This might be able to be done some 5-TO years from now. <br />McDonald - I mean you could do it tomorrow - keeping in with the ordi nance, right? <br />Bastyr -We could but we wouldn’t for two reasons. First, we don't feel that <br />larger lots are saleable at a price that we would have to give to make up <br />for the cost of the development. Plus the cost of engineering, plus the <br />cost of the improvements. <br />McDonald - its an economic situation, right? <br />Bastyr - Totally, <br />McDond • 1 its real hard to deal economics when you sit at this level <br />representing these people. Ah one thing that I should really tell you <br />is that when we do get these developments coming before us they always <br />start out with more lots and then eventually its worked down and it gets <br />to be a workable plan . An example was Navarre area . It came to us wi th <br />many, many houses and doubles and finally it got done where it was <br />reasonable. <br />Bastyr - l would say that in this case, we felt that we wanted a top notch <br />development and we didn't feel that we come in proposing more lots than <br />we thought v;as feasible, we felt that wo should come in with the proper <br />amount the first time, try to express to you that we want a to do a first <br />class operation, here. And we didn't feel that we could do that by <br />adding 3 or 4 lots that we figured on using. <br />Adams - Jeanne would you comment on the fears/concerns about sewer, <br />possible for the Met Council to impose sewer. <br />Is it <br />Mabusth - Not unless you have ..well it wouldn ' t be the Met Counci 1. . I don ' t think <br />that i ts the Met Council that does that. . I have just given the Chairmadam <br />a section in your Comp. Plan that reviews the philosophy that was really <br />adopted somewhere in 1974-75 when the 5 acre zoning district was <br />formulated. I think Diann, that you should really read it. <br />I <br />Goetten - Section from Comprehensive Plan for rural residential one-dwelling per <br />five acres: "Although the typical two acre rural residential is <br />appropriate for the entire rural serv'ice area, the northwest corner of <br />the City is planned for a lower density of one-unit per five acres. The <br />citizens have a traditional desire for more intensive rural quasi- <br />agricultural activities which require and support the larger minimum <br />lot density. Thus historical land use and not environmental concerns <br />have determined that land use classification. <br />1