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To: <br />From: <br />Date: <br />Mayor Callahan and Orono Councilmembers <br />Ron Moorse, City Administrator <br />Michael P. Gaffron, Assistant Planning & Zoning Administrator <br />April 7, 1995 <br />Subjtct: MUSA Amendment - Progress Update <br />List of Exhibits <br />A - Letter from Met Council Dtd 2/9/95 <br />B - Council Minutes 12/12/94 <br />C - Housing Data from Met Council <br />In December the Council directed staff to proceed with preparation of a MUSA amendment to <br />include the 10 "hot spots" plus the Orono School ’s hockey site. <br />Ron Moorse and I met with Carl Schenk and Marcel Jouseau on January 12 to discuss the <br />application requirements for such an amendment. Although we left that meeting with the <br />impression that this would be a relati\ely straightforward amendment, the subsequent February <br />9 letter from Chuck Ballentine (Exhibit A) raised virtually all of the old unrelated issues of I/I, <br />stormwater plan, transportation, housing, and generally our land use policies, including <br />development density. <br />Ron and I again met with Met Council staff on March 7, this time including representatives from <br />Transportation, Wastewater Services and Housing. From that meeting and subsequent <br />discussions I’ve had with Carl Schenk, this is where I think we stand: <br />Met Council staff generally understands the City ’s basic intent to sewer existing <br />development without providing sewer for new development. However, they are <br />clearly hesitant to support our proposal without addressing all of the unrelated <br />topics. <br />Our sump pump inspection program and limited (budgetwise) efforts to upgrade <br />our sewer system should satisfy their I/I concerns. <br />While we have amended the Comprehensive Plan to incorporate the "Interim <br />Strategy for Reduction of Non-point Source Pollution", we will need to do the <br />following as part of the current amendment: <br />Amend the appropriate section of our zoning/subdivision code to require <br />the use of NURP pionds and Best Management Practices for all new <br />development. (As I see it, this will not require a change in our current <br />practices since we have for some time now been using the NURPs and <br />BMPs.)