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\.:.^r»>l’tA' :' '■ V.%i. ;^i^- •■ ^■i^- ::Vj’:> , • iri^sr'.'. ,.» 'r. «■■ i,; t-- rw ,#•' ' tiii ■■•’1lp. ^0% ’-'^v K. 3it;.',-i- •: .wm^iimm, Met Council Rural Area Policy - Data Compilation June 23, 1992 Page 4proposes a 3 acre residential lot at 650 North Brown Road which the City allowed to connect into the adjacent City of Long Lake sewer system in 1986; the 4 acres adjacent to Wayzata Country Club/North Ferndale, which was recently platted into two 2 acre building sites; the 24 acre Long Lake sewer property; and 140 acres o£ area along North Shore Drive and Old Crystal Bay Road which encompasses 20 properties which were served with sewer either in 1963 (adjacent to the original Orono trunk line) or which were part of the North Shore/Scotch Pine Lane project in 19tl. Arguably, we are proposing only 31 acres of new service area, because the 140 acres near Noerenburg Park has been sewered and connected for 10 years or more, and consititutes no change in flows to the Metropolitan Sewer System. However, we have been advised that, even though Met Council has a history of allowing US to connect new sewer projects into their system without a prior MUSA revision, this policy can no longer be followed and Stubbs Bay (199 acres) must be added on to our current MUSA amendeent proposal. Met Council apparently won't officially declare our emendeent major or minor until we provide the additional information requested in February. Glenn Cook and I are currently in the process of compiling this information. It seems likely, however, that it ^ going to be considered a major amendment. Our current Plan Amendment is a response to the 1988 Met Council Systems Statement which directed that we address certain issues and update our Comp Plan to be consistent with Met Council Sewer Policies. This was to be completed by January 1990. The City asked for and received a formal extension to October 31, 1990. The Met Council informally approved extensions of that deadline through the actual submission of our Sewer Plan Amendment in January 1992, which suggests that they in the past have not been intent on forcing Comp Plans to be revised into conformity in a specific time fiame, even when such edict takes the form of a Systems Statement. The City may have unknowingly got itself into a box by agreeing to proceed with MUSA line revision for the Long Lake sewer plant property in a timely manner. At the time that agreement was made, the City did not have any expectation that Met Council would be forcing the issue of inconsistent density policies, given their complacency of the previous dozen years while the City developed on its merry way pursuant to the 1980 Comprehensive Plan and the 1988 Comprehensive Plan Amendment. wmmm