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• Resolution No. 654 A Resolution Denying the Rezoning Application of Cheyenne Land Company for 100 Orono Orchards Road - BE IT HEREBY RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Orono that the application of Cheyenne Land Company to rezone the property at 100 Orono Orchards Road, presently zoned two acre RR -1B, into twenty-nine one acre tracts be denied for the following reasons: WHEREAS, the City of Orono enacted Ordinance No. 149 on July 9, 1973, which established a moratorium on the granting of building permits, rezoning applications, conditional or special.use,permits, variances, platting and subdivisions or other au£hority-for additional development in the City of Orono, Minnesota: WHEREAS, this moratorium was extended by ordinance on several occasions and was not terminated until December 31, 1974, • and WHEREAS, this moratorium was necessary in order to insure the achievement of the goals of providing the city with satisfac- tory tools to guide development and to control development during the interim period so the benefits of proper planning would not be lost, to preserve the status quo pending the adoption of the measures necessary to protect the health, safety and welfare of the citizens of Orono, and WHEREAS, the council has determined through research and review of various reports and studies that areas not ser- viced by municipal sanitary sewer, lacking adequate transporta- tion facilities, containing inadequate and hazardous traffic patterns and insufficient access to highways, creating storm water runoff problems from denser development concluded that rezoning to a less dense development of these areas would pro- vide the best standards to safeguard life, health, property and welfare of the public, and WHEREAS, to fulfill the requirements of the Comprehensive Plan, the Zoning Ordinance and the Wetlands Ordinance, and WHEREAS, the Cheyenne Land Company on several occasions has made various applications for subdivisions not in compliance • with the land use and zoning requirements determined for the area, and