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4.To provide housing types and residential densities consistent with environmental and land <br />use plans and with the availability of public services and facilities. <br />5.To provide immediately beneficial housing programs for the greatest number of needy <br />Orono residents. <br />Urban Housing Policies <br />The urban housing policies are stated in section CMP 5-12 of the Comprehensive Plan. Policies #2 <br />through #4 are applicable to this application. <br />Policy U2 <br />Alternative Housing Types will be provided by planned residential developments. <br />A limited amount of land is available within the Urban Service Area for planned developments of <br />attached townhomes, garden type apartments or mixed residential and limited commercial land uses. <br />These housing clusters or multiple family developments will be acceptable only where full urban <br />services are available and only where the proposed density is compatible with the neighborhood and <br />wil local environmental constraints. Multiple family developments generally will not be considered <br />appropriate for lands within 1,000 ft. of Lake Minnetonka nor for areas such as Navarre that have <br />limited transportation access to outside employment or shopping facilities. <br />Policy #i <br />Urban Density Residential Development must occur within the existing Urban Service Area <br />Orono's Community Management Plan is not a staged growth plan. The Urban Service Area will <br />not be expanded into the rural area and urban services and facilities will not be extended into the <br />rural area for purposes of fostering or allowing increased development in those areas. <br />Policy #-/ <br />Urban Density Residential Development will utilize the capacity of existing public services and <br />facilities. <br />New residential development will be allowed to infill existing vacant properties within the Urban <br />Service Area consistent with environmental limitations and with the existing capacities of water, <br />sewer, drainage, transportation, and recreational facilities. New development will not be permitted <br />to overburden the services at the expense of the existing users. New urban development will not be <br />permitted if it requires additional unplanned local or regional facilities capacity. <br />page-3