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-3- moratorium on development within the study area was established in October, i975, and is still in effect. The City is concerned with the duration of the moratorium. Following Metropolitan Council review, the City intends to adopt the plan amendment and rezone the property within the Study Area accordingly. Plan Overview Ramsey's proposed Plan Amendment would divide the City into three development policy areas. The southeastern quarter of - "._ the City would constitute the 1990 Urban Service Area. The · northwestern quarter of. the City-would be designated as the Rural Service Area. The central half of the City would be a Transition Area. The 1990 Urban Service Area is planned to be totally served by central' sanitary sewers, by 1990..The area would provide approximately 4.4 square miles of developable land as estimated by Council staff. The area would be rezoned immediately .for industrial, 'single and multi-family residential, Commercial,. an'd conservation uses. Approximately 160 acres along TH 47 would be zoned for urban business to permit development of a regional shopping center. 'Anticipated 1990 population of the .Urban Service Area is not given in the plan. But the City has stated fin anticipated overall population growth of 10,500 by 1990. If added to the current 7,620 residents, this would give a total 1990 population of 18,120. Analysis of other information'in the plan (see Table 1) indicates that the City expects to realize a population growth of 8,375 and a household growth of 1,250 units within the Urban Service Area by 1990. Withirk the Transition and Rural Areas, the City anticipates an additional 2,625 persons and 750 households by 1990. The Transition Area would not be sewered until after 1990. The :basic minimum lot size requirement for both the Transition and Rural Area would be 5 acres. A minimum lot width of 300 feet will be required in the Transition Area to allow for future resubdivision. The average minimum density in any one subdivision involving the dedication of roadways will be four housing units per forty acres in both the Transition and Rural Area.