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DATE <br />PROJECT. TITLE <br />PROJECT # <br />DEPARTMENT: <br />CITY OF RAMSEY LAND USE APPLICATION <br />TECHNICAL REVIEW FILE <br />4/28/17 <br />PROJECT ADDRESS <br />RIVERSTONE ADDITION (PRELIMINARY PLAT) <br />17-106 <br />14800 BLOCK PUMA ST NW <br />Community Development — Planning Division <br />Name: Tim Gladhill, Community Development Director <br />TECHNICAL REVIEWER: Phone: 763-433-9826 <br />Email: teladhill@citvoframsev.com <br />We offer the following comments regarding your land use application. Staff is supportive of the proposed <br />subdivision, subject to corrections to plans identified within this report and final review for compliance with <br />future steps (Final Plat). This preliminary plat phase is the most significant approval step in the overall process. <br />Preliminary Plat gives entitlement to the project, in which the City cannot reverse overall layout. The last step <br />in the phase, Final Plat, simply approves construction documents and the Final Plat Sheet for recording and <br />legal subdivision. <br />Comprehensive Plan <br />Action Item: Comprehensive Plan Amendment required to change areas of High Density Residential and <br />Commercial. <br />The City Council already authorized a Comprehensive Plan Amendment for the `Armstrong West' area. The <br />amendment will now enter Metropolitan Council review. Upon approval of the Comprehensive Plan <br />Amendment, the entire site will be guided as Medium Density Residential. Please note that approximately <br />90% of the project site is already guided in this manner. The Comprehensive Plan Amendment adjusts two <br />(2) minor areas based off of previous land use planning In 2013, the City embarked on a minor Small Area <br />Plan commonly referred to as Armstrong West. The proposed project is consistent with policy direction from <br />that planning effort. Results of that process are attached under separate cover. <br />The Comprehensive Plan defines Medium Density Residential as areas that are within the MUSA and <br />intended to receive medium density housing including lower density multi -family housing and higher density <br />single-family housing. Average density will be 6 units per acre [Zoning Code allows for range of 3 — 6 units <br />per acre]. <br />The fact that the Droiect requires an amendment to the Comprehensive Plan and Planned Unit Development <br />affords the City certain discretion in approving/not approving the proiect. <br />Permitted Uses <br />It is our mission to work together to responsibly grow our community, and to provide quality, cost- <br />effective and efficient government services. <br />Riverstone Addition Planning Division Review April 28, 2017 (Preliminary Plat) <br />Pagel of 9 <br />