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Illustration of the new completed one million dollar Elmcrest Park Community Building with public restrooms <br />Catch and release Smallmouth <br />fishing in the rain at <br />Ramsey's canoe landing <br />In addition to many more parks and recreation facilities on the west <br />side of the Rum River than the east, there is an area of retail <br />services (restaurants etc.) that are presently accessed by trails on <br />both sides of T. H. #47 north of the Central Anoka County Regional <br />Trail at Bunker Lake Boulevard. <br />Within the Linking Regional Trails definitions in the 2040 Policy <br />Plan, indicates that: "Visitor origin data from the Council's 2008 <br />Regional Parks and Trails Survey indicate that regional trails in the <br />metropolitan area are used most by people who live nearby or can reach the <br />trail in a short bicycle trip or drive. Therefore, a priority is to develop <br />more trail corridors in the Metropolitan Urban Service Area, where more <br />than 90% of the population lives". <br />Ramsey has many thousands of residents in the Metropolitan <br />Urban Service Area within 1.5 miles of the proposed, realigned <br />Rum River Regional Trail, where in Andover conversely, there are <br />few homes that are in the MUSA, and within 1.5 miles. <br />In concluding, the Alternate Alignment Study would explore <br />moving this proposed regional trail from the east side of the river <br />to the west (#3 from green to the red dashed line west of the Rum <br />River above). <br />