10-10-1988 - Agenda Packet City Council - regular meeting

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Zoning File #1333 October 7, 1988 Page 3 of 3 3. Sanitary sewer will be provided as confirmed by the City Engineer's preliminary review. Sewer to be provided either through Long Lake by the Joint Powers Agreement or by constructing a new interceptor along the Highway 12 corridor. 4. The rezoning will allow single family residential development. 5. The property is immediately adjacent to a commercial corridor along Highway 12 and the proposed 1 acre zoning would provide an excellent buffer to the surrounding rural residential districts. G. The Comprehensive Plan Amendment included this property within the hi,JSA district and approved Municipal services for the area. 7. The current code will require rezoning to R-lA in order to allow the 1 a^re densities recommended in the Comprehensive Plan Amendment. The issue of sewer remains unresolved at this point, but the City Engineer confirms that there are available alternatives for servicing the property with sewer. The question remains how the property will be serviced by sewer either via the Long Lake system or the extension of Orono's Municipal sewer lines. The owner is aware of his obligation to pay for any extension of Municipal sewer to the property. Planning Commission Recommendation - The Planning Commission approved the rezoning of the northern portion of this property from RR-lB to R-lA based on one or more of the findings noted above in the staff memo. The minority opinion denied the rezoning based on the precedent setting aspect stating that they were fearful that the surrounding rural areas would request the same kind of rezoning. The surrounding rural residential properties were not included within this Comprehensive Plan Amendment and as a result were not included within the newly aligned MliSA district. There can be no rezoning from RR-1B to R-lA wit- ut sewer. In order to allow the rezoning to a greater density, the City would have to initiate a new Comprehensive Plan Amendment. The en iosed resolution has been drafted approving the rezoning as requested by the applicant authorizing staff to prepare the necessary ordinance amend- ment for formal action by the Council upon final resolve of the extension of sewer to the property.