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I. <br />V.CONSISTENCY WITH METROPOLITAN PLANNING POLICIBS & GDIDELINES <br />A. Population, Household and Employment Forecasts <br />The City of Orono estimates for population and households in <br />the year 2000 are approximately 10% greater than the estimates <br />provided by Metropolitan Council. The City predicts that the <br />rate of growth in the number of households will gradually <br />decrease from the relatively high levels of the 1980’s. However, <br />because most of the growth is anticipated in the rural zones, the <br />number of dedicated residential sewer units will not exceed Met <br />Council estimates for the year 2000 or the year 2010. <br />A 1991 study of existing sewered employment indicated levels <br />somewhat higher than predicted by the Metropolitan Council. With <br />the Highway 12 Corridor Amendment approved in 1988, sewered <br />employment is expected to grow modestly in the next two decades <br />at approximately 2% per year . <br />B.Sewered Population, Housing, <br />Plows <br />.-Mie loyment and Wastewater <br />The City of Orono forecasts that sewered population in years <br />2000 and 2010 will be equivalent to or slightly lower than <br />predicted by Metropolitan Council projections. Similarly, Orono <br />forecasts that sewered households will be slightly less than Met <br />Council projections, because the bulk of residential growth in <br />the City will likely be in rural zones. Potential multiple <br />family development in the Highway 12 Study Corridor, approved in <br />the 1988 Comprehensive Plan Amendment, may contribute to sewere <br />population household numbers being very near the Met Council <br />estimates. <br />Approximately 93% of Orono's total employment is sewered. <br />As not.d abova, sewered employment is expected to <br />because of the 1988 Comprehensive Plan Amendment which allowed <br />for approximately 60 acres of additional commercial <br />development along Highway 12. The additional wastewater f] ws <br />anticipated from this development were approved by t e e <br />Council in 1988, and no other significant land use revisions for <br />neighborhood sewer retrofit projects will significantly af ec <br />projected wastewater flows. <br />jjjulwiik