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, RESOLUTION NO. 847 RESOLUTION AMENDING THE LAND USE PLAN OF THE CITY OF ORONO WITHIN THE FRAME- WORK OF THE COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE PLAN WHEREAS, the Planning Commission of the City of Orono has prepared a Comprehensive Guide Plan which includes a compilation of policy statements, goals, standards, and maps for guiding the physical, social and economic development, both private and public, of the municipality and its environs; and WHEREAS, the City Council has reviewed and adopted said Comprehensive Guide Plan; and WHEREAS, the Planning Commission and the City Council have reviewed the proposed plat and planned residential development of Summit Station; and WHEREAS, the proposed Summit Station development consists of six clustered homes surrounded by commonly owned access and open space areas, has a community water well system, has been served by an extension of the metropolitan sewer system, is near to an arterial highway, and is remote from a lake or wetland conservation area; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City of Orono finds that the •Summit Station development proposal is consistent with the Comprehensive Guide Plan provisions for the location of clustered homes as -follows: 1. Open space under common ownership may satisfy group needs of multiple or clustered dwellings and may be owned and main- tained privately. 2. Urban residential housing should be clustered whenever possible to preserve such natural amenities as slopes and to provide open space to achieve greater distance between housing and external problem areas. 3. Development in the urban residential classification requires public sanitary sewer and a location near streets of arterial designation. 4. The extension of metropolitan sewer was from adjacent property and was not through existing rural land areas. 5. The development is on land remote from any lake or wetland conservation area thereby minimizing environmental impact upon those unique natural amenities. 0