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TO: <br />FROM <br />DATE: <br />Orono Council Members <br />Ron Moorse, City Administrator <br />Michael P. Gaffiron, Asst. Planning & Zoning Administrator <br />May 17. 1993 <br />SUBJECT: Adoption of Comprehensive Plan Amendment #3 <br />List of Exhibits <br />A - Resolution to Adopt Comprehensive Plan Amendment #3 <br />B - Plan Amendment <br />C - Metropolitan Council Letter of 4/28/93 <br />D - Met Council Staff Reports of 3/31/93 and 4/15/93 <br />On April 22, 1993 Metropolitan CouncU (MC) approved Comprehensive Plan Amendment #3 <br />as attached to this memo. Council may recall that this amendment was initiated in late 1990 u <br />a lesponse to the 1988 Metropolitan Systems Sutement. The initial draft submitted to MC in <br />January 1992 included updates to various sections of the sewer element of the Comprehensive <br />Plan and added to the MUSA all areas of the City currently sewered or approved for sewer but <br />not ^viously included in the MUSA, and added the Long Lake Sewer Plant property to the <br />MUSA. <br />The issue of lural density (which was addressed by MC staff person Barbm Sennes at a City <br />Council last June) ultinutely has been resolved by MC determining that om rural <br />policies a«l l*nd use coiurols qualify the City as an "exception" to their Rural Sewice A^ <br />policies. Therefore, they will not require any changes to our zoning nor any sanctioiis which <br />might limit continuation of our 2-acre and 5-acre development policies. This presumably would <br />hold true if we make future comprehensive plan amendments, although one caruiot predict how <br />MC policies will change in the future. <br />As of its approval, MC expects the City to update the sewer inftltration/inflow analysb <br />which was initially completed by Bonestroo and Associates in 1981. Further, they expect us to <br />esublish an inspection program to eliminate illegal ciear water connectio, nd we must prepare <br />and submit a nnual progress report? to the MWCC of actions taken to solve infiltration and <br />inflow problems in the sewer system. <br />The final MC requirement of approval is a "future" requirement. As part of our Mxt <br />comprehensive plan amendment the City must 2dopi Mei Council’s "Interini Strategy to Red^ <br />Non-Point Source Pollution to All Metropolitan Water Bodies". That interim strategy includes <br />the following requirements: