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for inclusion in the Urban Service Area sometime between 1981 and 1990. The exact timing of this expansion of the MUSA depends upon the timing of metropolitan sewer service to Ramsey. The very earliest sewer service will b~ available is 1981, Metropolitan sewer service will be provided to the City of Ramsey via the Champlin - Anoka - Brooklyn Park (CAB) interceptor. On October 14, 1976, the Metropolitan Council approved an amendment to the Metropolitan Waste Control Commission's De- velopment Program. This amendment provides for construction of the Anoka segment of the CAB interceptor by 1979. This segment would provide service initially for the City of Anoka only, with treatment at the existing Anoka Wastewater Treatment Plant. The Development Program amendment also provides for the Commission to pursue federal and state financing'for construction of the lower reaches of the CAB through Champlin and Brooklyn Park by 1981. This lower stretch of the interceptor through Champlin and Brooklyn Park would phase out the Anoka Treatment Plant by carrying the wastewater flow south through other existing interceptors and ultimately to the Metropolitan Wastewater Treatment Plant at Pig's Eye. The An°ka upper segment of the CA~, will be sized for eventual service to Ramsey when the lower reach of the CAB is constructed. A major reason for this delay is that Anoka Treatment Plant has limited reserve capacity, and first priority fo~ allocatiop of this capacity is given tO the City of Anoka. Anoka is a designated Freestanding Growth Center and considered part of the current Metropolitan Urban Service Area. Furthermore, expansion of the Metropolitan Urban Service Area to provide additional land for urban development demand in the North Minneapolis sector is not needed until the 1980's. Therefer_~e_ R._a~s_S~y_should not plan to. become part of the MUSA until-metro- /~f there are identifiable pollution problems in Razasey which need to be solved before 1981, it may be possible for Ramsey to use capacity in the Anoka Sewage collection system. This arrangement would not only need to be worked out with the City of Anoka, but would also require approval by the Metropolitan Council and Waste Control Commission. The plan proposes the establishment of a "sewer availability area" (SAA) within the 1990 urban service district. The leading edge of the SAA will stay five to ten years ahead of the actual sewered area. The SAA will be based on the city's financial program for extending sewers, and sewer service will be guaranteed by .a certain date. Plats in and within.ene mile of .~9~sew~r ~v~i!ability ~rea will be requ~ed_..t_q~SgFpw~_~o~yment for sewer late~r_~_. This will discourage subdi- vision activity before sewer construction takes pl~We~ ~ probIe~ %~i~ts fo~ the. ser~i~ce distriqt._. During_t~. pe~.~gdz, u~_ban dens%ty .development will be permitted . bY the zg~i~g qrd~anc~, on_~9._o.~_t~e~_~inges of the urban service district, and the urban land use zones in t~e z_o_~in~ g~ina~e ."f~loe~". wi~h the sewer availability area. Land outside the~ SAA. w_o~l~.be in the rural ~onlng c.ateqory., and land could be rezoned automatically as the SAA is expanded by city council action. Whatever method i~Oe~."h~e~'l~--~-~6%fd-~'-~-~r~it-Urban developmen~ Wh~re 'urban services are not imminent. In fact, staff reco~unends that the sewer availability area not exceed a five-year prospective development area, in conformance with policy 3e of the Metropolitan Waste Management Plan: 3e. Sewage disposal for development in those portions of Urban Service Area communities planned by the local govern- ment to remain rural for a period of five (5) years or longer must be consistent with the policies established in this Guide Chapter for the Rural Service Area. The Rural Service Area The Rural Service Area consists of about I~ square miles stretching across the northern and northwestern portions of the City. It contains at least a dozen housing subdivisions within which are many vacant lots. The planning document lacks an inventory of exactly what the Rural Service .A~_~o~.~n~_~e ~y-~ ~Xisting ~eve!opment and Tb~.~it~ h~ adop~9~. ~ ~i~era_q~9~Di_m~._u~%____!~ot ~e__aD~ d~nsity sk~ndard of four h0usehol~ per 40 acres. This appears to be a reasonable density cap for a rural area. From our experience, we recommend to Ramsey that when this policy is written in ordinance form, it be phrased as four households per quarter-quarter section, rather than per forty acres. Other communities in the Metro Area that have used a density approach have found it difficult to delineate forty acre parcels, thus making administration of the ordinance very complicated. Quarter-quarter sections, on the other hand, are readily defined on a map. The Transition Area Ramsey's proposed Transition Area includes approximately 5,000 acres of developable land or about 8 square miles. The Ci~Y_b_~s_ a~Qpt~_as.po~i~y a 2½ acre minimum .1ot~iz~ In addition, within the Transition Area, lots would be designed for future resubdivision when municipal water and sewer is available (after 1990) by requiring a minimum lot width of 300 feet. Within the Tra~si~iQn .~d_.~r_a.!__A~.,e~as, ther~ pre. ~pproximately 750 existing platted, lots of 1+ acre in size. The plan does not clearly state what development policy 'w~-'APpl~ %8~-h~% pl'~%ted lots. It appears that these lots could be developed at any time because the City has assumed these lots would accommodate part of the anticipated 1990 population growth. At 3.5 persons/household, this means that