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Page 1 of 21 ORDINANCE NO. 299 CITY OF ORONO HENNEPIN COUNTY, MINNESOTA AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE CODE OF ORDINANCES PERTAINING CHAPTER 78 FOR AMENDMENTS THROUGHOUT THE CHAPTER THE CITY COUNCIL OF ORONO ORDAINS: SECTION 1. Section 78-5 shall be amended by deleting the strikethrough text to read as follows Sec. 78-5. Purpose. (a) Guiding principles. (1) The city is growing in population from a rural agricultural community to a rural residential community. Use of land for residential purposes is considered primary with other uses viewed as supporting this use. While present commercial or industrial activity, where consistent with residential use and other guiding principles, will be protected by ordinance or conditional use permit, it is not the intention to expand or allow all such commercial or industrial activity to a degree where it conflicts with the primary residential use and the other guiding principles. The continued use of land for farming and similar purposes will be protected by ordinance or conditional use permit where sufficient acreage allows such use to continue without conflict with expanding residential use. (2) The maintenance of open space and the avoidance of overcrowding of land is a basic guiding principle in this plan. In addition to avoiding the ill effects of excessive, intensive land development, it is the policy to also avoid the threat to public health which occurs with excessive crowding of private sewage disposal systems on substandard building sites. (3) The city has recognized that many of the open space policies which have previously provided the basic direction of the land use policies have proven to be inadequate. It is now clear that on-site disposal systems must not be allowed on any site of less than two acres. It is now clear that the physical characteristics of the city make the extension of public services such as sewer extremely expensive and almost impossible in some areas. The city and other governmental agencies have learned that the premature development of open areas can be costly and disastrous to the environment. (4) Of paramount importance to the citizens of the city and to the citizens of the metropolitan area is the preservation of Lake Minnetonka and the wetlands that provide the only practical system of filtration and purification of the stormwater so vital to the preservation of Lake Minnetonka and the groundwater supplies in the area. The disastrous effects of intense residential and commercial development within the 87