Agenda - Council - 01/26/1982 - Laserfiche WebLink

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I I I I I I I I I I I I I I ! - 7 - These issues are local in nature. The County should continue to cooperate with the comenting jurisdictions in resolving the issues raised. The County has already indicated its intention to modify the Plan to address a number of these issues before the Plan is finally adopted. Comments provided by the Minnesota Department of Transportation and the Metropolitan Waste Control Commission are attached. MnDOT supports the Plan's identification of setback and access control needs and the need to keep nonregional trips off of the regional highway system. C. Consistency With Other Guide Chapters Metropolitan Development Framework (Paul Baltzersen) With the exception of a Metro Center, Anoka County"contains the full range of planning areas identified in the Council's Metropolitan Development Framework (see Map 1). The southern portion of the County contains fully developed areas. Further north are comunities undergoing active urbanization. The City of Anoka is designated a Freestanding Growth Center. St. Francis in the northern portion of the County is a proposed Freestanding Growth Center. The outlying area, which constitutes the large§t portion of the County, is a general rural use region. Portions of Burns Township and parts of the cities of St. Francis and Ramsey are designated commerical agricultural regions. The Metropolitan Development Framework indicates that it is the responsibility of local units of government to refine the Metropolitan Urban Service Area contained in the MDF. The Anoka County Plan contains a general urban area and a general rural area with a 1990 MUSA line. The urban area shown reflects the urban area shown in the comprehensive plans of cities and townships since all cities and townships in Anoka County are preparing their own plans. The Anoka County Plan contains capital improvement programs for parks and roads and also contains a land use implementation program with ordinances which cover those areas of direct County responsibility. Land Use The general urban area contained in the County Plan contains approximately 60,800 acres or about 21 percent of the County to accommodate forecasted development. The remaining area, about 226,100 acres, constitutes the general rural area. Since all cities and townships in Anoka CountY-are preparing comprehensive plans,~the County does not have responsibility for defining an urban service area or for generally proposing and zoning land uses. The County does have direct responsibility for shoreland and floodplain management in the County's four townships and for enforcing individual sewage treatment system regulations in the shoreland areas of the townships and for County-licensed business establishments. The County also has responsibility for surface water management outside the two established watershed districts. The County oversees the County Park and Open Space System.