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the Council cannot require the cit>* to adopt the Interim Strategy as pan of this plan amendment The city, however, has adopted the Department of Natural Resource ’s rc\Tsed stateMvide shorcland regulations and is currently evaluating its comprehensive plan and land use controls to determine the most appropriate way to adopt the Council ’s Interim Strategy'. Before the city- submits another plan amendment, it must amend i»s comprehensive plan, land use controls, and stormwater plan to control the quality of stormwater runoff as prescribed in the Council ’s Interim Strategy. Finally, the city is requesting to add approximately 171 acres to the Metropolitan Urban Service Area (MUSA). This area is comprised mainly of the Suburban Hennepin Regional Park District’s Nocrenberg Park. The city has sufficiently addressed the criteria for adding land to the MUSA as found in the Metropolitan Development and Investment Framework. The city has also demonstrated a regional need to add the land to the MUSA. AUTHORITY TO REV1E>^ The Metropolitan Land Use Planning Act of 1976 requires local units of government to submit comprehensive plan amendments to the Metropolitan Council for review (Minn. Stat. 473.864, subd. 2, 1978). The Act also gives the Council the authority- to establish guidelines governing the amendment review process (Minn. Stat. 473.854). The city of Orono submitted its proposed comprehensive plan amendment on January 30, 1992. On Febniaiy 12, 1992 the Chair determined that the plan amendment was incomplete for Council review. After receiving supplemental material from the city of Orono the Chair determined on Fcbruaiy 8, 1993 that the amendment was complete for Council review, and that it presented a potential impact on the metropolitan sanitary sewer system. The 90-day review period concludes on April 29, 1993. FINDINGS 1.The city of Orono is able to demonstrate a regional need for adding 171 acres (net 30 acres vacant, developable land) to the Metropolitan Urban Service Area. This request is consistent with the Council ’s Metropolitan Development and Investment Framework. The city of Orono allows two-acre and five-acre residential development in its rural service area. 'The city has demonstrated that existing development in its rural area exceeds t.he Council ’s rural residential development density of one unit per 10 acres. This is inconsistent with the Council ’s Rural Service Area policies. The city of Orono has addressed all of the performance criteria in the appendix to the Council ’s rural service area guidelines. This qualifies the city for an exception i-: the Council ’s Rural Service Area policies. 4.”rhe city’s current indi-vidual on-site sewage disposal system management program is in accord with Council policies. 5.The city’s sewered socioeconomic forecasts are lower than the Council ’s for the years 2000 and 2010, and sufficient capacity exists in the metropolitan sanitary sewer system to accommodate all planned growth in the city through the year 2010.