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PARTICIPANTS COMMENT SHEET AIRPORT MASTER PLAN STUDY RAMSEY, MINNESOTA Robert L. and Marilyn L. Wyatt 15001 Ramsey Boulevard Anoka, Minnesota 55303 COMMENTS Ram~ey is a young city with tremendous potential to become the biggest growing community nearest to the Twin Cities. Those of us residing there know it is far easier to commute to the cities for work and social activities than from the western or southern communities because they have overgrown or pregrown the freeway capabilities. As stated at the meeting, Ramsey is truly a "bedroom" community allowing residents the "space" to do their thing and probably the last of its kind this close to the Metropolitan area. Am residents of several rural, growing communities over the past 30-40 years, we know that as people move into these country communities, they wamt and demand schools, parks, police and fire protection, alt of which cause the once lowly tax on their home to escalate. At the same time, as growth to these communities take place, it becomes a natural thing that wells and septic systems soon become inadequate, roads are absolutely required for the safe passage of school buses, emergency services, etc., but because of their already increased tax burdens, residents will fight these improvements saying they wanted to live in the country, they can't afford their homes if these improvements are put through,i orilastly, they push the community to bring in industry to pay the taxes so long as it isn't in their back yard~. You.can't bring industry in to pay taxes without completing the needed developments; industry brings more residents, more residents need more services, and thus the circle of growth from a rural town to a city complete with all amenities takes place. You can't have both - an urban countrified way of living so close to a Metropolitan area and an industrial environment to provide a tax base to pay the way. Ramsey has reached a point where it has gone too far into development to back 'down to the countrified way of living. It must now proceed with the industry development to help complete the transition to a successfully growing City. Not to do so at this point could jeopardize the independent status of this community and could lead to forced unfavorable~development to such things as the existing dump and it's potential growth. We believe the Airport Master Plan, as presented by the Commission, does offer some possibilities for Ramsey in more ways than just being a potential attraction for favorable tax improvements if industry responds. If the airport will halt future dump activity, that in itself will be a MAJOR STEP FORWARD. Certainly the improved reputation that such a facility would give to Ramsey is another. It would appear there could be a need for additional restaurants, airplane service and sales