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The City Engineer’s preliminary cost estimate to serve your neighborhood with sewer is <br />$304,000 (about $13,800 per dwelling unit). <br />Because the City is not in a position to assist in the costs to ser\e all 10 identified <br />neighborhoods, a priority has been assigned to each neighborhood. Priority is based on the <br />magninide of existing problems, the number of systems which will likely have to be replaced, <br />as well as the technical feasibility of replacing systems when required. <br />Orono Orchards is rated as the City ’s second highest priority for sewer installation. City <br />financial assistance to help defray the cost of a sewer project in your neighborhood may be <br />possible in a few years when the highest priority areas have been completed. <br />How Does Sewer Fit Into Orono’s Overall "Comprehensive Plan"? <br />All 10 identified neighborhoods are within Orono’s designated "rural" (unsewered) area. <br />However, these neighborhoods are each somewhat unique, having relatively small lot sizes or <br />being adjacent to a lake. And each neighborhood was developed prior to the 1975 zoning <br />changes which required a 2-acre minimum for rural lots, to accommodate septic systems. <br />The City is currently working with the Metropolitan Council to obtain approval for extending <br />municipal sewer to all 10 neighborhoods, which requires amendment of the Comprehensive Plan <br />and MUSA (Metropolitan Urban Service Area) boundary. <br />Please come to the public information meeting on Thursday, July 20th. Results of the study as <br />it relates to your neighborhoods will be presented, and City representatives will be available to <br />aruwer questions. You are invited and encouraged to attend. We want to hear your views <br />regarding the possible installation of municipal sewer in your neighborhood. <br />If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Asst. Planning & Zoning Administrator <br />Mike Gaffron at 473-7357. <br />Enc. - Area Map