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CMP Part 3B. Land Use Plan <br /> � <br /> 2. Orono's rural area provides the opportunity for quasi- agricultural <br /> land uses. Greenhouses, orchards, truck farms, riding stables and <br /> recreation areas such as large golf courses and park reserves are not <br /> possible in more crowded urban areas but they are compatible with rural <br /> residential properties. Thus, the total commercial activity of Orono is <br /> broader and more varied than if the City were all urban or all rural. <br /> 3. Rural density is limited by natural conditions. Development of rural <br /> Orono is naturally limited by a number of conditions including extensive <br /> wetlands, steep slopes and areas of high water table, which factors <br /> influence building locations and transportation options as well as the <br /> location and spacing of on-site sewage treatment systems which rely on <br /> soil treatment of sewage effluent. <br /> 4. The existing rural area will not be urbanized. Orono's Community <br /> Management Plan is not a staged growth plan. Except in limited cases as <br /> identified in this plan, the urban area will not be expanded into the rural <br /> area. Municipal urban services will not be extended into the rural area or <br /> across open, rural lands. Rural land uses and rural land use density will be <br /> maintained at a level to ensure that private on-site sewer systems will <br /> operate satisfactorily and that rural wetlands and drainageways will not be <br /> overloaded with storm water nutrient pollution. <br /> 5. Rural land uses and densities do not require urban services. Urban <br /> services are not compatible with rural land use. Extension of certain urban <br /> services, such as extensive public road maintenance or municipal sewer or <br /> water cannot be economically justified or easily provided to developments <br /> in rural areas or at rural densities. <br /> 6. Rural land uses do not require municipal sewer service. Orono's soil, <br /> topography and low-density rural land use provide the ingredients <br /> necessary to assure safe, adequate, permanent on-site sewage treatment <br /> and waste water disposal without hazard to ground water, surface water or <br /> the public health. Extension of sewer service to properties in the rural <br /> area will be avoided, except when necessary to protect the public health, <br /> or to avoid or eliminate negative impacts to surface and groundwaters. <br /> Future expansions of the sewer system into the Rural Area to solve <br /> existing neighborhood sewage treatment problems or along the lakeshore <br /> to avoid or eliminate potential negative impacts on lake water quality, will <br /> not result in a reclassification of those neighborhoods from Rural to <br /> Urban. Expansion of the sewer system into the Rural Area will not result <br /> in the provision of additional urban services, nor will it result in changes <br /> to allowed development densities. <br /> City of Orono Community Management Plan 2008-2030 Page 3B-22 <br />