12-04-1974 Council Meeting Minutes with PC

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� , ; .` � -. • MINUTES OF A COUNCIL r'iEETING HELD Page 2 �Searles noted that to insure the health, PRESERVATION OF QUALITY � safety, order, convenience, prosperity OF WATER and general welfare of the City of Orono, the (Continued) � city must enact amendments to the zoning ordinanCe to make different regulations for � the di£ferent districts , and to change the . use distriCt boundaries anc� to increase the required lot sizes in most use districts . � These changes would also implement the derivatives of comprehensive municipal plan � as adopted by the City Council on December 2 , 1974 . � Searles noted also that t�e guiding principle in • the comprehensive guide plan and one which must be followed in order to protect the safety and � welfare of the citizens of Orono is the preser- � vation of the wet lands and drainage ways serving Orono and the contiguous communities ar.c� the � preservation of Lake Minnetonka. He noted that soil tests indicate large areas of clay and � pockets of �eat, which together with the large number of slopes in Orono, serve to limit the • construction of building sewer systems as well • as access roads in some areas. He noted that the extension of public sewer and municipal services � to these rural areas of the city is too expensive and woulc� result in intense residential development � which would thereafter endanger the quality of storm water run-off into the water shed, wetlands � and Lake Minnetonka. He noted that scattered pre- mature �evelopments in the rural areas would result • in the costl� extension of municipal service • through other undeveloped areas . Such extension would place an unreasonable burden upon all other � property owners in the area. He note� that the Metropolitan Ccuncil ' s policX is to require � development of land in Close in communi_ties prior to further expansion into the rural areas . • Searles also noted that the proposed changes would STORM WATER RUN-OFF • be in line with the enviorr_mental purposes and regulations that have previously been followed � by the Department of Natural Resources of the � State of Minnesota, the Minnehaha Creek Water District, the Lake Minnetonka Conservation � District, and previous city ordinanCes . More- over, it was noted that the recent 5urface � Water Management Plan of September 19 , 1974 , and the Harza Studies of January, 1971 both reinforcec� � the finding of the CounCil that major chanqes in �land uses are necessary in orc�er to protect the quality of the surface storm water run-of.f within � the City of Orono. Basically, these pl�ns found that: � �