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RESOLUTION NO. 847
RESOLUTION AMENDING THE LAND USE PLAN
OF THE CITY OF ORONO WITHIN THE FRAME-
WORK OF THE COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE PLAN
WHEREAS, the Planning Commission of the City of Orono has prepared a
Comprehensive Guide Plan which includes a compilation of policy statements, goals,
standards, and maps for guiding the physical, social and economic development,
both private and public, of the municipality and its environs; and
WHEREAS, the City Council has reviewed and adopted said Comprehensive
Guide Plan; and
WHEREAS, the Planning Commission and the City Council have reviewed the
proposed plat and planned residential development of Summit Station; and
WHEREAS, the proposed Summit Station development consists of six
clustered homes surrounded by commonly owned access and open space areas, has a
community water well system, has been served by an extension of the metropolitan
sewer system, is near to an arterial highway, and is remote from a lake or wetland
conservation area;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City of Orono finds that the
•Summit Station development proposal is consistent with the Comprehensive Guide Plan
provisions for the location of clustered homes as -follows:
1. Open space under common ownership may satisfy group needs of
multiple or clustered dwellings and may be owned and main-
tained privately.
2. Urban residential housing should be clustered whenever
possible to preserve such natural amenities as slopes and
to provide open space to achieve greater distance between
housing and external problem areas.
3. Development in the urban residential classification requires
public sanitary sewer and a location near streets of arterial
designation.
4. The extension of metropolitan sewer was from adjacent
property and was not through existing rural land areas.
5. The development is on land remote from any lake or wetland
conservation area thereby minimizing environmental impact upon
those unique natural amenities.
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AND FURTHERMORE, WHEREAS, the Land Use Plan, Map II of the Comprehensive
Guide Plan, is a schematic diagram indicating the basic intentions of the written
Plan;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Land Use Plan of the City of
Orono is hereby amended to include the proposed Summit Station development within
the adjacent Urban Residential designation.
Adopted by the City Council of the City of Orono on the 11 day of
October , 1977, by a vote of 4 ayes and 0 nays.
ATTEST:
Walter R. nson
Clerk/A "nistrator
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William B. Van Nest, Mayor