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• Development should reflect, incorporate neighborhood existing values <br />• Habitat preservation -passive o/s <br />• Is a race track going to preserve and improve the image of Ramsey? <br />• More space between my ear and someone else's noise <br />• Minority opinion: "I'm a business, I like density" <br />• Density transition NOT merely screening <br />• No density transition of 500%/1000% <br />ISSUE: Ramsey Needs Chamber of Commerce <br />• City of Ramsey is a business and should be run as such -citizens =stakeholders <br />• Ramsey competes with all. communities for businesses, talent, jobs, etc. <br />• NEED to differentiate Ramsey from other communities <br />• Who is promoting businesses, potential homeowners, etc. to come to Ramsey? Who is our <br />advocate to world outside Ramsey? <br />• Create balance of business/housing growth and rural history <br />• Diversity -can't keep heads in sand <br />1. Manufacturing/smokestack <br />2. Service <br />3. High Tech <br />4. "Green" business <br />• "Eat at Table" not scraps <br />• Why not here? <br />• What is City's motto? Branding? <br />• Can't depend on outside organizations (Greater Anoka County Economic Development) to <br />push our agenda <br />• Strategically placed marquees (sic) <br />ISSUE: Just Say NO! Marketing is not a City Function <br />• Everyone else said yes <br />19 <br />