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Mr. Goodrich suggested that the City needs to deal with Mr. Boros on a dollar basis. He added that he could present the eminent domain resolution at the January 23, 1996 Council meeting. Motion by Councilmember Peterson and seconded by Councilmember Zimmerman to direct the City Attorney to prepare letters of eminent domain and treat Mr. Boros like all the rest of the parcel owners and to direct staff to continue to try to contact the parcel owners. Motion carried. Voting Yes: Mayor Hardin, Councilmembers Peterson, Zimmerman, Beahen and Beyer. Voting No: None. Case #8: Metropolitan Livable Communities City Administrator Schroeder reminded Council of the resolution presented at the December 12, 1995 meeting, declaring goals for life cycle and affordable housing. At that meeting, it was discussed that the Met Council had set a benchmark for Ramsey of a 75/25% owner/renter mix with 33-35% of all housing as non-single family. Council adopted a 90/10 mix with a 10% goal for non-single family within that portion of the community in the MUSA and not.currently platted or having received preliminary plat approval. At that time, Council directed that this be revisited at a January meeting. Mr. Schroeder summarized the information he included with this case. Within the southeast portion of the community, which includes the entire urban service area, there are 16 different tracts of land that are currently not developed. 'These tracts have an estimated 594 acres of developable land. It is projected that 1,337 single family homes at densities of 2.25 units/acre can be built on this land. Mr. Schroeder 'explained that staff has attempted to project where, within these tracts, it is most likely that housing densities greater than 2.25/acre could reasonably occur. The projection is 362 units of medium density housing. If that occurs, our non-single family housing stock would increase to 613 units of a total 6,295 housing units. This would equate to a total of 9.74% of total housing within the entire community or 23.5% of housing units yet to be platted Within the MUSA. Mr. Schroeder continued that, currently, Ramsey has 251 units classified as non-single family, which is 5.28% of our total housing stock. The potential increase to 9.74% would continue to place Ramsey well below the norm of other Metro Area communities, as would the goal set at the December meeting. The goal passed in December appears to be approximately 140 additional non-single family units which probably results in a total of 391 non-single family units community wide, or 6.32% of the total build-out of 6,188 housing units at some point in the future. He pointed out that al/of this assumes no future growth outside of the MUSA and no expansion of the MUSA. Councilmember Zimmerman commented on the problems the City of Andover is having with this. He stated this should be kept low. He felt Ramsey simply does not have the transportation system to support this plus the parks are not that good. We are just now starting to get the parks in shape for the people who. have lived here for awhile. He added that we would be getting low-income housing and that we do not have any shopping facilities either. He inquired the value of what we would be getting in comparison to what we would be giving up. He suggested keeping the figures the same as was recommended in December. Mr. Schroeder reported that when we met with the Metropolitan Council staff, they felt the target they gave us was reasonable but it was up to the City of Ramsey to set goals as to whatever we feel is reasonable. City Council/January 9, 1996 Page 14 of 20 I I I I I I i I I ! I I I I I i I I I