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DATE <br />CITY OF RAMSEY LAND USE APPLICATION <br />TECHNICAL REVIEW FILE <br />1/28/17 PROJECT ADDRESS 14800 BLOCK PUMA ST NW <br />6/9/17 <br />PROJECT. TITLE RIVERSTONE ADDITION (PRELINIINARY PLAT) <br />PROJECT # 17-106 <br />DEPARTMENT: 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 <br />with future steps (Final Plat). This preliminary plat phase is the most significant approval step in the overall <br />process. Preliminary Plat gives entitlement to the project, in which the City cannot reverse overall layout. <br />The last step in the phase, Final Plat, simply approves construction documents and the Final Plat Sheet for <br />recording and legal subdivision. <br />NOTE: This Review Letter has been modified from the April 28.2017 version. Additions are indicated bv_ <br />underline. Deletions are indicated by Gtrikethroutha. <br />Comprehensive Plan <br />Action Item: Comprehensive Plan Amendment required to change areas of High Density Residential <br />and Commercial. <br />The City Council already authorized a Comprehensive Plan Amendment for the `Armstrong West' area. <br />The amendment will now enter Metropolitan Council review. The amendment will be consistent with the <br />nronosed subdivision. <br />Upon apo-ial of the Comprehensive Plan Amendment, the entire site will be guided as Medium Density <br />Residential. Please note that approximately 90% of the project site is already guided in thin mixiler. The <br />Comprehensive Pk Amendment adjusts two (2) minor areas based off of previous land uJe<r.irmn'r <br />2013, the City embarked cn a rAx'xor Finall Area Plan commonly referred to as Armstrong West. The <br />proposed project is consistent with policy direction from thatrikux effort. Results of that process are <br />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 <br />density single-family housing. Average density will be 6 units per acre [Zoning Code allows for range of <br />3 — 6 units per acre]. <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 />Page 1 of 11 <br />