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L — 3 — • (2) strict enforcement of municipal ordinances pertaining to land development and sewage disposal on present as well as future building; (3) condemnation or redevelopment of problem properties where feasible; (4) installation of central sewers. The Council's and Commission's Alternative Waste Management Study will make recommendations next year for handling existing sewage disposal problems in rural areas. This study may indicate other alternatives available to Orono. - Seven (7) of these unsewered areas are within 1,000 feet of the shoreline of Lake Minnetonka and are adjacent to the Orono interceptor. The interceptor route was moved to this location so that these developments could be readily sewered. The seven developments are lettered B, C, D, E, F, G, and H on map 04 in Orono's CSP and are shown on Attachment B. The City and Council staff have agreed that four of the areas should be severed within three years and that the other three areas will be studied for potential sewer service. After considerable negotiation, the City has agreed to make the following commitments in the CSP: 1. The City will design and construct a local collection system for areas C -D and G -H within three years after the Orono interceptor is completed. Individual houses will be required to hook up within two years thereafter, in accordance with MWCC rules and regulations. 2. The City will monitor water quality and conduct studies on the economic and environmental impact of constructing local collection systems in areas B, E, and F. The findings and supporting data from these studies, together with recommendations, will be included in Orono's final CSP, which will be prepared pursuant to the requirements of the Metropolitan Land Planning Act. Each of these developments is located in the rural service area. Sewering them and assessing SAC charges requires an exception to the general Council policy of permitting connections and levying SAC only within the MUSA. Council staff believes that the public interest in improved lake water quality is best served by sewering these lakeshore developments and warrants an exception to the Council policy. The Council should therefore direct the MWCC to include areas B through H in the Metropolitan Sewer Service Region at the time these individual areas are to receive sewer service /• under the terms of Orono's approved CSP. ( B. On -Site Disposal Orono proposes to control on-site sewage disposal in the unsewered areas of the City. The City has regulations requiring permits to install on-site systems and has stated its intention to draft an ordinance regulating the design, construction, maintenance, and monitoring of systems in conformance with WPC -40 when it is promulgated or with its (the City's) own more stringent requirements. With the CSP as presented; such an ordinance will be the heart of the wastewater planning for the City. -rhe City has told staff that if will employ at`•least one full-time employee wil will be responsible for administering the City regulations from initial site evaluation through certification of completed construction to monitoring and maintenance; the City plans to finance this through permit fees. In short, Orono is pursuing a regulatory system that the Council has re- commended to other communities, and the City should be commended. As noted above, the implementation of such strict on-site system controls is an essential part of wastewatar planning; it is especially important in Orono where the buildable areas in the rural area are generally on heavy clay soils in which on-site systems have a high incidence of failure due to clogging or poor absorption. V. Conclusion The Orono CSP is here reviewed as an interim plan. It highlights critical Development Framework and waste management issues between the City and the Council. Based upon the redesign of the Orono -Long Lake interceptor, a redefining of the MUSA that is consistent with Framework and City policies is needed. Staff concludes that the City's proposal not to expand the MUSA in Orono before 1990 is consistent with the Framework analysis of urban land demand. However, permanent low density development in Orono is not necessarily consistent with Council policies. The City is advised to study this question in its comprehensive plan to be submitted pur- suant to the Land Planning Act. The City's waste management proposals for the sewer service area are in accordance with Council waste manage- ment policies. Proposals for the rural service area are incomplete. The on-site sewage disposal regulatory system is still being written; permanent sewer solutions to scattered developments next to Long Lake still must be negotiated between the cities, and the CSP needs to be amended to include the City's commitment to �• sewer and study scattered developments on Smith Bay and Browns Bay (areas B through H). RECOMMENDATIONS 1. The Metropolitan Urban Service Area within Orono should be amended as shown on Attachment C. Orono's system statement should be changed to advise the City of this recommended amendment to Development Framework.