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] <br />j <br />I <br />1 <br />: <br />tpanrpo RTATION JUNE, 1980 <br />The projected population is in line with Orono's rural land use preservation <br />policies and with the proposed public facilities plans of Orono, the State <br />Department of Transportation and the Metropolitan Waste Control Commission. <br />Changes in population trends and projections have brought on modifications <br />in mt.tropolitan facilities effecting our transportation planning. Regional <br />sewer facilities capacities have changed drastically. Original plans <br />called for sewering all of Orono with capacity for 37,000 people. But <br />the final Orono-Long Lake Interceptor was relocated and is inplace with <br />a design capacity for less than 8,400 Orono residents and a service area <br />limited to the existing urban and lakeshore neighborhoods. In addition, <br />regional transportation plans have been changed as commuters move in <br />toward the center city. The State of Minnesota has dropped plans for <br />relocating and expanding Highway 12 through Orono as had been shown in <br />our 1974 Comprehensive Guide Plan. Interstate 394 may be built between <br />Minneapolis and Interstate 494, but there are no plans for additional <br />^'-grading of State Highway 12 west of Wayzata. Indeed, Highway 12 was <br />ir/esurfaced in 1978 after statewide priorities shifted from Highway 12 <br />Highway 212 as the major east-west arterial for central Minnesota. <br />COMMERCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT HAVE ALWAYS BEEN CENTERED <br />if g- THE HISTORIC TOWN CENTERS. <br />The shopping, employment, educational and social needs of Orono residents <br />have been more than amply met by commercial facilities and shopping centers <br />located in Navarre and in surrounding communities. Rural and urban residents <br />alike utilize these facilities and in fact, the commercial stability of the <br />neighboring cities relies in part upon the regional service area that in­ <br />cludes all of Orono. Orono's transportation plans therefore address the <br />local service needs of our residential neighborhoods and the transportation <br />links between these neighborhoods and the established town center commercial <br />areas. <br />A PRINCIPAL GOAL OF ORONO'S PLANNING PROGRAM IS THE PROTECTION OF NATURAL <br />RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL AMENITIES, PARTICULARLY THE WATER QUALITY OF <br />LAKE MINNETONKA. This goal has its most profound impact on Orono's land <br />use policies and is therefore indirectly linked to transportation concerns. <br />The most direct connection, however, is that occasioned by County Road 15's <br />location along Lake Minnetonka's shoreline. <br />As the western Lake Minnetonka communities have grown and developed they <br />have generated more commuters and the resulting traffic on County Road 15 <br />has increased significantly. Yet there is no room to expand the road <br />without filling into the lake oi removing a significant number of lakeshore <br />homes. Any increase in road size, or any appreciable increase in roadway <br />use, will only create an intollerable barrier between these homes and <br />their platted riparian shoreline. <br />if <br />CMP 7-5