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June 28, 1976 and 109 WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Council has indicated these plans and regulatory controls should include zoning ordinances amendments, private sewage disposal regulations and interim development controls applicable to "problem areas" which will ensure development densit- ies and capacities to forestall the premature expansion and extension of the Lino Lakes interceptor; and WHEREAS, at the request of the City, the Metropolitan Council staff has provided further definition of the expected plans and regulatory controls; and WHEREAS, the City of Lino Lakes is willing to provide the Metropcbditan Council plans and regulatory controls to coincide with the completion of the Lino Lakes interceptor; NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Lino Lakes: I. The City will prepare and adopt plans and regulatory controls to protect metropol- itan and City of Lino Lakes investments in the Lino Lakes Interceptor. 2. The City will accomplish plan and regulatory control adoption by December 31, 1976. 3. The City will prepare and adopt plans and regulatory controls which address Met- ropolitan Council expectations in the following areas: a. The City will define an urban service area based on the capacity of the Lino Lakes Interceptor in the area served by the interceptor and will generally de- find methods of allocating interceptor capacity during the next fifteen years within this urban service area. The Lexington Park Lakeview area will also be definded as an urban service area based on allocation of capacity in the Blaine Interceptor. b. Outside of the urban service area the City will establish development density standards. These standards will apply on an interim basis while the City deve- lops and adpots a long term rural area growth management strategy through the municipal comprehensive planning process. c The City will amend its zoning ordinance to include a restrictive saoil prov- , inision. d. The City will define existing and potential septic tank problem areas and adopt approprtate offical controls to assure that development in such areas will not create additional or new pollution problems. e. If Minnesota Pollution Control Agency on -site sewage disposal installation and maintenance standards are promulgated by November 1976, the City will adopt an ordinance consistent with them. If MPCA regulations are not enacted by Novem- ber 1976, the City will add on -site disposal system maintenance provisions to the current City septic tank regulations which will be used until the MPCA re- gulations become law. In either case the City will adopt on -site sewage disposal provisions which will provide for the following: 1) Minimum standards for the installation of new systems. 2) Minimum standards and procedures for monitoring and maintaining new and existing disposal systems. 3) Methods of improving existing systems which need upgrading to meet the est-