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Ramsey has clearly conveyed it~ openness to c~m~ruial and inuh~arial develop. Over 1,200 acres are zoned ir~h~T~rial in an area where absorptic~ of 25 acres a year is viewed as significant. At the 25-acre rate, a 50-year supply of lar~ exists. A similar metropolitan and sector supply exists. ~he key, c~viously, is to properly position that ~e northwest sector of the metropolitan area was inventoried and found to have 2,400 vacant acres or rou~y a 44-year supply of industrially zoned land. ~he metropolitan area b~ 24,000 such acres or rou~y a 50-year land supply o Followin~ an a~ysis of ~ co~/tions and future opportunities; the ~ask force was asked to build, through self-assessment, a list of Ramsey has a consolidated lar~ resouroe with availability of utilities, historically competitive land co~a, r~nably high accessibility, highway- rail-airport site transportation services and solid residential In contrast, =he study ar~a is som~hat r~mote, while total population (though increasing) is limit~__. ~he area suffers an image problem fr~m the d/sjointed and minimally maint2du-~ existing properties. ~he most' significarm fa.-~or, h~ver, is the contiguous nature of ~n extensive land reservoir which can be planned or developed as a neighborhood. That ability to put toge~her a planned industrial neighborhood provides an oppo~ty to specially position the industrial land as an ~ial or busirmss village. Pogula~on, ~loyment..and Absorption Ramsey ~t struggle with establ~ an identity as an emergir~ urban center with re~r~ion of rural values and envY. ~e city had fewer t_ha~ 1,000 hou_~eholds in !970. It ~ a rmme with P~mz~=y County and zip code idantity wi=h Anoka. Its ~ from 2,500 people in !970 to 10,000 in 1980 es~hl~_ t. ha o~nity, but ~ i~s rec~tion. The city's appa_~nt remote location causes it ~o be easi!~y overlooked. Few reccc~_~ze =hat vi~amlly the erfaire ~ia!/~ial ar~a is %%~_n the me~--~polit~n %u~an se_-vice area and the city is p.~en=!y ins~_!ling Ma~!itan projections r~fiect that identity ~isis. Population graph over the nex~ 15 years is project_~ at 1,600 people and jobs are pred/cted to gtco' fr~m an unde.~ur~ed 300 to 600 in =he year 2000. Those projections drive a nominal lar~ ab~orp~ion r~qaJ~.~nt of 150,000-200,000 square feet of bu/ld/r~ and 600,000 squa_~ feet of l~.nd. Figures 3 and 4 and Table 2 depict =he "offic~_!'' Met_~:po. !iran s~es of lan~ absorption refte.~ the oonsaz~ative nature of future estimates for the area. Tables 3 and 4 sh=w ~ial land absorption for metropolitan ~icipalities. Bet-w~en 1970 and 1984, ou~ly~ l0