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City of Ramsey <br />Comprehensive Plan Amez~nent <br />Land Use Element <br /> <br />Table 2-5 <br />GROSS ACREAGES IN LAND USE CATEGORrES <br />IN STUI)Y AllEA <br /> <br />Acres in Land.,Use D. esignations .Acres <br />Single Family Resi .d.en.tial 856.12 <br />Mixed Residential 71.85 <br />Commercial/Industrial 1121.67 <br />Op e..n Space 339.93 <br />TOTAL 2389.57 <br /> <br />Within the Commercial/Industrial designation, the policy is to encourage groupings of <br />compatible businesses and discourage individual, freestanding businesses that conflict with <br />surrounding uses. The purpose is to provide for business locations that are convenient, <br />easy to provide with suitable access, and properly related to abutting residential devilment <br />and the transportation system. <br /> <br />The City. Council recognizes the Comprehensive Plan as the policy adopted to regulate <br />land use and development in accordance with the policies and purpose set forth in the <br />Zoning Chapter. The Land Use Map shows the planned land uses established as City <br />policy. Decisions on rezoning requests will be guided by the land use designations as well <br />as by other policy tools. <br /> <br />The 1995 amendments to the Metropolitan Land Planning Act mandate that <br /> <br />If the comprehensive municipal plan is in conflict with the zoning ordinance, the zoning <br />ordinance shall be brought into conformance with the plan by local government units in <br />conjunction with the review and, if necessary, amendment of its comprehensive plan required <br />under section 473.864, subdivision 2. After August 1, 1995, a local government unit shall not <br />adopt any fiscal device or official control which is in conflict with its comprehensive plan, <br />including any amendments to the plan, or which permits activity in conflict with metropolitan <br />system plans... The cornp.rehensive plan stmlI provide guidelines for the timing and sequence of <br />the adoption of official controls to ensure planned, or&fly, and staged development and <br />redevelopment consistent With the comprehensive plan. <br /> 473.858 subd. 1, as amended by MN Laws Ch 176 <br /> <br />By December 31,. 1998, and at least once every te.n years thereafter, each local governmental unit <br />shall review and, if necessary, amend its entire comprehensive plan and its fiscal devices and <br />official controls. Such review and, ffnecessary, amendment shall ensure that...the fiscal devices <br />and official controls of each local government unit are not in conflict with its comprehensive <br />plan. <br /> 473.864 suM. 2 as amended by MN Laws Ch 176 <br /> <br />page 2-14 <br /> <br /> <br />