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mr. Bernard J. Iiarrington • January 10, 1978 Page 2 presented to the Iletropolitan Waste Control Commission for your approval and yet no action has been taken. 4. The original Comprehensive Sewer Plan prepared by Orono in October of 1976 projected the City's sewer needs through the year 2000. The Iletropolitan Waste Control Commission staff objected to any reference being made in our Comprehensive Sewer Plan beyond the year 1990 and we were requested by the Metropolitan Council staff to so amend our plan as to remove any references beyond the year 1990. The Orono -Long Lake interceptor is presently designed to provide capacity as projected by the City through the year 2000 for only that part of the City lying in sewer service areas 1 through 8. The balance of the City, which you are including in your sewer service area map, is not included in a projected sewer area until at least after the year 2000. The inclusion of rural Orono into the sewer service area of the Orono - Long Lake interceptor by the Waste Control Commission is in serious (• conflict with the City's established land use planning for that area. The results of this conflict mean that these lands will be included in the urban service area by the. Metropolitan Council rather than the rural service area as requested by the City's comprehensive planning. The City views this as a major obstacle preventing the statutory right of the City to plan its land use patterns within the structure of its comprehensive land use planning. 4p The City has requested several times in the past -four months to have a meeting with you to resolve this issue. The City is willing to negotiate this matter in order to alleviate any problems that the Waste Control Commission may have with•reserve.capacity, originally programmed for Orono, or any other concerns that the Waste Control Commission may have. We feel that it is important that these negotiations be culminated at an early time so there will be no additional delays in the construction of the Orono -Long Lake intercept( Until the sewer service area of the Orono -Long Lake interceptor has been finally determined and acceptable to the City, we are unable to respond to the System Statement prepared by the Metropolitan Council dated June 23, 1977. Because of this inconsistency of the sewer servi area, the public hearing process allowing the City to object to the System Statement has been kept open until this issue has been resolved. This is yet another reason why this inconsistency must be resolved at an early date.