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TO: <br />FROM: <br />Platuiing Comniission Members <br />Ron Moorse, City Administrator <br />Michael P. Gaffron, Asst. Planning & Zoning Administrator <br />DATE:August 9, 1993 <br />SUBJECT: Comprehensive Plan Amendment No.5 - MUSA R jundary Amendment <br />List of Exhibits <br />A - Existing MUSA Boundary Map <br />B - Proposed MUSA Boundary Additions and Subtractions <br />C - Legal Descriptions <br />Synopsis <br />This if a public hearing to consider inclusion of certain properties within the Metropolitan <br />Urban Seivice Area (MUSA) boundary. The MUSA line is a boundary established by local <br />governments and the Metropolitan Council to define those areas which are or will be served by <br />the Metropolitan Sewer System. <br />Background <br />In 1980 Orono defined its MUSA boundary to include only areas currently served with <br />municipal sewer. Subsequent amendments to the MUSA boundary were approved by Met <br />Council after construction of the Minnetonka Bluffs, West Femdale/Marinas/Orono Lane, and <br />Crystal Bay Sewer Projens. A further amendment was approved in 1992 prior to the Stubbs <br />Bay project. The most recent amendment, approved in May 1993, added four additional areas <br />to the MUSA including the Long Lake Sewer Pond property and property near and including <br />Noerenberg Park. <br />The currently proposed MUSA boundary amendment (Comprehensive Plan Amendment <br />No. 5) responds to a request by resident Alan Nettles at 1940 Shoreline Drive to include his <br />property in MUSA and allow connection to Lhe existing Crystal Bi:y sewer, rather than <br />replacing " i.s failing septic system. <br />Fu.iher, Amendment No. 5 proposes to add the 4+ acre Orono Sewer Property building <br />site to the MUSA, while removing an equivalent area of vacant land from the MUSA. The land <br />proposed”for tb' - trade is adjacent to Maxwell Bay and within Noerenberg Park (see Exhibits). <br />Rationale for MUSA Addition.s <br />The Nettle’s request for connection to municipal sewer results from the failure o his <br />existing trench type drainfield system. This is a lakeshore property adjacent to Smith Bay, and <br />the septic system is approximately 100’ from the shoreline. Municipal sewer is avaUable at the