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A RESOLIITION
DENYING CONNECTION TO MQNICIPAI� SEWER
FOR PROPERTY LOCATED AT 2165 WATERTOWN ROAD
WHEREAS, Jeffrey Stebbins (hereinafter "the applicant" ) is
owner of property located at 2165 Watertown Road within the City of
Orono (hereinafter "City" ) and legally described as Lot l, Block 1, .
Balsawood; and
WHEREAS, in accor.dance with Orono Municipal Code Section
3. 05 Subdivision 7 (B) , the applicant has requested that he be allowed
to connect the proposed house on said property to the Long Lake
Municipal Sewer System located adjacent to the property; and
WHEREAS, the City Council has reviewed the recommendations
of the staff and the comments and written statements of the applicant
regarding this request.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the City Council of the
� City of Orono hereby denies the requested sewer connection for the
property described above based upon one or more of the following
findings of fact concerning this property:
1. The property is located in the RR-1B Single
Family Rural Residential 2-Acre unsewered zoning
district.
2. The property was created according to and in
conformance with all the standards of the RR-1B
district through a subdivision approved by the
City Council per Resolution No. 1706 on December
10, 1984.
3. Applicant' s engineer has submitted soil
testing reports and on-site sewage treatment
system design data indicating a suitable on-site
system can be installed on the property to serve
the proposed house and can be expected to function
satisfactorily.
4. The City Council adopted the Orono Community
Management Plan in June, 1980 as a guide to the
orderly and economic development of the City.
� Chapter 6 of the Community Management Plan, known
• as the Comprehensive Sewer Policy Plan, contains
the City' s Rural Sewage Treatment Policies, and
indicates that residential sewage generated in
the rural zoning districts is intended to be
treated on-site without extension of municipal �
utilities.
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5. Allowing the applicant to connect to the Long
Lake sewer adjacent to the property would set a
precedent, to the extent that the City has
heretofore required all new residential
development in the "RR-" rural residential zoning
districts to make use of private on-site sewage
treatment facilities. The City has identified
numerous properties which border on sewered areas
and which could be expected to make a similar
request to that of the applicant if the current
request is approved. Allowing such connections
would require an amendment to the Community
Management Plan.
6. The fact has been established that a suitable
on-site sewage treatment system can be installed
on the property, hence connection to the municipal
• sewer is not required because of hardship, but
merely as an economic convenience to the
applicant.
Adopted by the City Council of the City of Orono, Minnesota at
a r ular meeting held November 12, 1985 .
ATT ST:
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D othy M allin, City Clerk Mary C. tler, Mayor
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