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- 11 - or additional policies and standards be included to protect steep slopes and vegetation., manage runoff erosion, utility crossings and floodplains, provide right of way for the river trail route, and achieve consistency with the Development Framework Rural Service Area density policies. Review by the EQB will be initiated following completion of the city's comprehensive plan review. 3. Housing (Ana Stern) According to the Development Framework Plan the City of Ramsey falls into three different planning areas: a small portion to the southeast is scheduled to receive sewer between 1981 and 1990; the northwest corner is classified as commerical agricultural; and the rest of the city, and largest portion, is considered part of the General Rural Use Region. Ramsey's plan presents adequate data on the number, type, tenure, cost and condition of the city's housing. The plan acknowledges the Metropolitan Council's household estimates, which project an increase of 1,300 house- holds between 1980 and 1990 (1980:2,550 households; 1990:3,850 households). The city, however, estimates a higher number of households for both years, 2,780 households for 1980 and 4,758 for 1990, or a total increase of 1,978 households for the decade. Ramsey's plan contains policies and an implementation program to promote housing of various types and cost and to maintain its housing stock. Even though at this time Ramsey does not have a Regional fair-share goal for the provision of low- and moderate- income housing, the plan makes provisions for this type of housing as part of the city becomes urbanized during the 1980s. Ramsey's plan includes a modest-cost housing goal of 364 units, the city's share of Regional need through 1990. Ramsey intends to achieve this goal by encouraging Planned Unit Developments in the area scheduled for urban services and by promoting use of the Minnesota Housing' Finance Agency's Affordable Home Program. The plan's housing inventory indicates that only 35 units of Ramsey's housing stock were built before 1939. Because of its relatively new housing stock, the city intends to emphasize housing maintenance rather than rehabilitation. To accomplish this goal Ramsey will adopt a truth-in-housing ordinance to be enforced at time of resale that should help maintain and upgrade the city's housing. The city will also encourage local banks to participate in home improvement loan programs and will continue to cooperate with Anoka County Community Action Program to make Minnesota Housing Finance Agency home improvement grants available to city residents. The city may also want to amend the plan to include a discussion about how it will employ the Community Development Block Grant monies it now will receive through Urban Anoka County. As part of Ramsey receives sewer services, the city intends to promote low-and moderate-income housing by increasing the density for apartment development to 20 units per acre and encouraging construction of subsidized multifamily units. Ramsey's proposed