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I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I II. 3. Apparent consistency with other adopted Metropolitan Development Guide chapters. The Council may provide advisory comments with regard to other aspects such as technical adequacy, completeness, and its internal consistency. As part of the review, the Metropolitan Council: "may require a local governmental unit to modify a comprehensive plan or part thereof which may have a substantial impact on or contain a substantial departure from metropolitan system plans." The Council must complete its review of the local comprehensive plan within 120 days following the issuance of the order to comence plan review. The review of the Plan was originally commenced on May 18, 1981~ but was suspended pending additional information. The review was recon~enced on October 23, 1981. The review deadline is January 21, 1982. DESCRIPI-~ON OF ANOKA COUNTY Anoka County is the northernmost of the seven counties comprising the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area. The County includes the Freestanding Growth Center of Anoka, urbanized and urbanizing communities in the southern portion, general rural regions, agricultural areas, rural centers, and to the extreme north the Proposed Freestanding Growth Center of St. Francis. The population of Anoka County given by the recent census is 195,998. This represents a 27% increase over the 154,712 population in 1970. The areas receiving the most growth in the County were the urbanizing communities of Blaine, Ramsey, Andover, and Coon Rapids, all growing by more than 5,000 persons in the decade. Some rural communities have also experienced a large increase in population with two, Ham Lake and East Bethel, receiving more than a 4,000 increase. Two cities, the City of Anoka and Oak Grove Township, have received just over a 2,000 person increase. The communities of Bethel, Circle Pines, Columbia Heights, Hilltop and Lexington have lost population over the decade. Most of Anoka is, however, undeveloped. Of the 286,941 acres that comprise the County 209,125 or 73 percent are vacant or in agricultural use. Residential uses comprise six percent of County land uses, commerica] less than one percent, and industrial approximately two percent. Large concentrations of commercial development include the City of Anoka and Northtown Shopping Center. Industrial development is concentrated primarily in the southern communities of Anoka, Blaine, Columbia Heights, Coon Rapids, and Fridley. Anoka includes five regional parks, one park reserve and the Carlos Avery Wildlife Management Area. The Rum River has been designated a Wild and Scenic River. Anoka County is served by T.H. 10, T.H. 65, 1-35W and 1-35E. ..