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~SOLWION ~ERI~S, the Netropolitan Council is a regional planning agency and as such, encourages orderly development in metropolitan area suburban communities by recommending growth only in designated urban service areas; and I~HEREAS, certain metropolitan area suburban communities have both designated urban service and rural areas as defined by the ltetropolitan Council; and VI~RIt~, the Ketropolitan Council recommends.that the rural character of designated rural areas be protected and preserved by restrictin~ development in those areasl and I~t~REAS, the ~etropolitan Council has designated specific areas as urban service areas which shall be served by the Netropolitan Waste Control Commission and therefore discourages urban development in those areas designated as rural areas; and lflll~HA~, in order to preserve the rural character and avoid the need for the unnecessary and/or premature extension of regional services such as sanitary sewer in designated rural areas, the Hetropolitan Council recommends that development of open land in designated rural areas be limited to a maximum rural residential density not to exceed one rural residential unit for each ten acres, based on 40 acre parcels; and ~II~RI~AS, approximately 14,560 acres of Ramsey lies outside the designated Urban Service Area and is considered a designated rural area by the Hetropolitan Council; and h'H~.~, approximately 8,409 acres of Ramsey lie outside the designated Urban Service Area but within the Hetropolitan Waste Control Commission District l/o. 3 boundary; and I~II~RI~S, the remainder of the City outside the designated Urban Service Area and Netropolitan Waste Control Commission District No. 3 boundary contains approximately 6,151 acres and is designated as a rural area in the City's 1990 Comprehensive Plan; and I/I~REAS, the existing rural residential density of that part of Ramsey outside the designated Urban Service Area and within the Hetropolitan Waste Control Commission District No. 3 boundary including planned unit developments and plats in the designated ~ural area which have received preliminary approval by the Ramsey City Council is approximately one rural residential unit for each 3.63 acres; and IfllEREAS, the existing rural residential density of that part of Ramsey outside the Netropolitan Waste Control Commission District t3 boundary excludin~ planned unit development and plats in the designated rural area which have received preliminary approval from the Ramsey City Council is approximately one rural residential unit for each 5°49 acres; and