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A RBSOLOTION APPROVING PREHENSrVB PLAN AMENDMENT NO. 4 FILE NO. WHEREAS, in June 1980, the City Council of the City of Orono (hereinafter the "City") adopted a Community Management Plan (hereinafter "CMP") to provide for the orderly development of the City. An integral part of that plan provided that sewered areas of the City be included within the Metropolitan Urban Service Area (hereinafter "MUSA"); and WHEREAS, the CMP identified five specific areas within the rural zones of the City as requiring Alternative Waste Management Stnd.er to review existing sewage disposal problems and investigate alternatives. One of these five areas is the long-established Stubbs Bay neighborhood, an area of existing residential development; and WHEREAS, in 1988 the study entitled Stubbs Bay Alternative Waste Management Study found that extending municipa sewers to the Stubbs Bay area was the only acceptable and/or feasible alternative for long-term waste treatment and disposal in consideration of the options set forth in CMP 6-44; and WHEREAS, as a result of further review in 1991 and 1992, the Orono City Council expanded the Stubbs Bay Sewer Project Area to include the "Cygnet" rural one acre development located immediately northeast of the Stubbs Bay area (see Map 12, CMP 6-42) and the Oxford Road development immediately southeast of the originally defined Stubbs Bay area, which abutts the lakeshore of Stubbs Bay; and WHEREAS, in July 1992, the City filed an amendment with the Metropolitan Council providing for the inclusion of the Stubbs Bay Sewer Project Area within the MUSA; and WHEREAS, written notice was sent to surrounding local units of government and other affected jurisdictions requesting written comments by August 10, 1992 but no oral or written comments have been received by the City; and Page 1 of 2