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00- Orono's existing and proposed Comprehensive Land Use Plan and proposed Comprehensive Sewer Plan dated April 1., 1977. 3. All lands within the City of Orono within the rural service area as shown thereon, which are all lands outside of the MUSA, MSS•R and Interceptor Sewer Service'Area lines, as - shown on Exhibit A, will not be sewered at any time in the future. These lands are to be'zoned and regulated so that .they will be adequately and more economically served by private• on-site septic systems. 4. These restrictions and the additional restrictions as set forth in the Comprehensive Land Use Plan, proposed -Comprehensive Sewer Plan and the Zoning Code and amendments thereto'in order to implement those plans, are necessary in part for the following reasons: A. The entire City of Orono lies w•i'thin the watershed of Lake Minnetonka. B. Lake Minnetonka is totally dependent upon the"..sur= face water runoff from its watershed for replenishment and' the water quality of Lake Minnetonka is directly related to " the quality of surface water runoff within the watershed. C. The quality of surface water runoff is adversely .affected by any increase in the land use density and the resulting impervious hard cover which limits the natural purification process and which limits the removal of nutri- ents from the surface water runoff, which nutrients pollute Lake Minnetonka, the surface water recharge areas and the other surface waters in the city. Moreover, in order to pay for the extension of such expensive public sewer, a much greater density of land use development would be necessitated, which increase in land use density would result in the above -noted adverse affects on the quality of the surface water runoff. These adverse effects on the quality•of t`he ..surface water runoff are documented at length in the` Orono r•r'`' Comprehensive Land Use Plan approved by the Pet•ropolitan ' { . Council on November'7, 1974, and adopted by the City of Orono on -D_ecember 2, 1974, the Comprehensive .Sewer -, Plan" as adopted in October; "19.77, and the .e:xhibits and reports 'incor- porated therein-by=reference. 5. The "city has for years, along with other.:age.n,cies, recognized th_e problems of. dense devel-opment and •the con -comm' tant adverse affects -on the .quality. of `t•h.e surface .water ru�i; off 'in this sort -of .watershed' and. has ' therefore.. impl::emen`ted a comprehensive regulatory program of 'two ;and five acre .: '