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Memo to Ramsey City Council and Planning Commission Page Three June 23, 1977 Rationale: Updating to reflect current construCtion and background with respect to selection of this location. 5. Page 26 Recommended Change: Add a paragraph at the end of this section to read as follows: "The Metropolitan Council is currently developing new pOpulation, household and employment allocations for the City of Ramsey under a Federal grant program. Preliminary allocations of population and households are slightly lower than those projected in this section. It is our opinion that the preliminary allocations are reasonable 'minimum' planning estimates. The difference in projection is not sufficiently significant to warrant changing the land areas provided for housing and/or commercial development from those set forth in the original Study report. It is important that the city review the trends with respect to population and household size during the first two or three years following adoption of this plan to determine whether the rate of growth is significantly different than projected herein or in the preliminary allocations prepared by the Metropolitan Council. A change in this trend would simply delay the process of extending urban services; it wa ~d not change the basic land use areas designated. Amend- ments have been made to the 1990 urban area deleting some high density residential area projected in the original report, partly in recognition of the slowing trend which appears to be occurring." Rationale: Generally self-explanatory; the preliminary figures from the Metropolitan Council will 'not be finalized until mid-summer of 1977 and it appears appropriate to delay making any changes in the projections prepared by the counsultants in the original study report pending a more firm Metropolitan Council estimate. 6. Page 37 Recommended Change: Delete the last paragraph and substitute the following: "In the transitional area, the minimum individual lot size will be 2-1/2 acres. In the rural service area, the minimum individual lot size will be 10 acres. Roadway easements and dedications will not be acquired in these areas except by sub- division or condemnation. The Planning Commission and City Council have discussed various other mechanisms for density control in the transition and rural areas. They have examined proposals which limit subdivision in those areas which are not expected to receive central sewer facilities in the foreseeable future and have determined that a combination of sOils restrictions, septic system regulation and specific lot size limitations are the appropriate mechanisms at this time to encourage more dense development in the 1990 urban area and to