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CITY of ORONO <br />RESOLUTION OF TY%IC Tff COUNCIL <br />NO. L <br />4. The Property is located within the MUSA and is intended to be developed using <br />municipal sewer. Municipal sewer is available from the City of Orono, and <br />municipal water is available from the adjacent City of Long Lake. <br />5. Because the property is guided in the CMP for single family residential use at a <br />density of up to 3 units per acre, use, the portions of the property intended for <br />such use should be rezoned consistent with the intended and guided use. The most <br />appropriate zoning for the intended use is RPUD, Residential Planned Unit <br />Development District. However, the church use on the site is intended to <br />continue under the existing conditional use permits for said use, and church use is <br />not a permitted or conditional use in the RPUD District. Therefore, it would be <br />most appropriate that the church parcel remain zoned RR -1B to allow continued <br />use under the current CUPS. <br />• 6. This proposed SFR development for 8 new homes has an average dry buildable <br />lot area of slightly under 16,000 s.f., with no new building lots less than 14,000 <br />s.f. as recommended by the Planning Commission. This is consistent with the <br />general range of lot sizes in the surrounding neighborhood. <br />7. The property is within "Parcel Group 3" as identified in the CMP and is guided <br />for residential density greater than 1 unit per 2 acres. The property is one of the <br />areas reviewed as part of Orono's Rural Oasis visioning study. Although City <br />Ordinances do not yet require that applicant address elements of Conservation <br />Design, because this is a RPUD planned development the applicant has been <br />required to address the visual impacts and the elements of Conservation Design. <br />A key element in this development proposal is the retention and enhancement of <br />natural views looking northeastward towards the site from Willow Drive. <br />8. Rezoning the portion of the property planned for single family residential use to <br />RPUD Residential Planned Unit Development is appropriate based on the <br />proposed density and nature of the proposal, which meets the following general <br />_ purposes of the RPUD District: <br />incorporates flexibility in land development and redevelopment in order to <br />utilize new techniques of building design, construction and land <br />development; <br />incorporates energy conservation through the use of clustering of <br />buildings and land; <br />Page 3 of 14 <br />