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D Y. RJL A 91 P41 0, Q-`-2 300 Metro Square Building, 7th Street and Robert Street, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55101 Area 612, 291-6359 c March 8, 1978 Mayor Brad Van Nest City of Orono Post Office Box 66 Crystal Bay, Minnesota Dear Mr. Van Nest: This letter will pull together the information you have requested of several people here at the Council. It addresses the questions you raised in your letters to me, John Boland, and Karl Burandt dated February 6, 16 and 17. In regard first to the revised Metropolitan Urban Service Area map you included with your letters, Council staff estimates that the proposal would add about 600 acres of land in Orono to the existing area of service. The area on the map is adequate in size and location for planned urban development to 1990, insofar as staff is concerned. This opinion rests on several major assumptions, however. It assumes that the map establishes the proposed 1990 area of service and that local services will be staged within it by five-year increments. It also asusmes that other aspects of the City's comprehensive plan prepared pursuant to the Metropolitan band Plan- ning Act will be consistent with Council policy and plans. Three of the more important plan aspects are policies and implementation measures for maintaining the rural character of the rural service area, an ordinance governing on-site sewers, and plan compatibility with adjacent local governments. Another assump- tion is that other municipalities in the same sector as Orono will propose com- prehensive plans so that the cumulative amount of urban and rural service areas will be in scale with forecast growth for the sector as a whole. Preliminary indications from other municipalities in the sector, plus consideration of Orono's proposed 1990 MUSA, indicate this probably will not be a problem. It is impossible to say with absolute certainty at this time whether all of these assumptions are correct because adequate information from comprehensive plans will not be available until local governments have fulfilled the terms of the Land Planning Act. In regard to sewers, the 1990 sewer flow estimate recently sent to Orono was calculated as follows. A.sewered population of 6900 people in 1990 generating 83 gallons per person per day was assumed. This results in .57 million gallons An Agency Created to Coordinate the Planning and Development of the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area Comprising: Anoka County 0 Carver County 0 Dakota County 0 Hennepin County 0 Ramsey County 0 Scott County 0 Washington County