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Ellen B. Sones <br />January 31, 1994 <br />Page 2 <br />3.The City generally has supported the concept of improving existing wetlands <br />where possible, and has long taken a strict stand against filling of wetlands except <br />where absolutely necessary to protect a property owner's rights. <br />4.The City’s 1974 Surface Water Management Plan indicates that while wetlands <br />are abundant in Orono, virtually ^ of Orono's wetlands are necessary to <br />assimilate nutrients caused by the ongoing low-density development of the City <br />as well as provide floodvvater storage. Since Orono can t afford to lose its <br />wetlands, the City’s histoiy of wetland protection generally would support the no <br />net loss" philosophy as well as the idea that any mitigation of City wetlands <br />should occur within the City, preferably within the same sub-watershed and, <br />within the proposed development in the case of subdivisions. <br />5.Orono ’s 1974 mapping of designated wetlands identified few Type 1 and Type 6 <br />wetlands, and no Types 7 or 8. The new Federal delineation methods obviously <br />will result in identification of many new "wetlands" which the City has . <br />historically neither recognized nor protected. It is likely that the City will <br />continue t ) oppose (and deny variance/CUP applications for) filling or destruction <br />of its historically protected wetlands, but will not oppose filling or drauung of <br />newly identified Type 1. 2, 6, 7, and 8 wetland basins as long as mitigation <br />occurs. <br />Please contact me at 473-7357 if you have any questions on any of the above, <br />Sincerely, <br />Ronald J. Moorse <br />City Administrator <br />RJM/lsv <br />cc:Orono City Council <br />Jeanne Mabusth, Building & Zoning Administrator <br />Michael P. Gaffron, Assistant Planning & Zoning Admimstrator