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II. III. 2.7 through 2.19). Generally, the Council's responsibility is to review and adopt findings and determinations with regard to the local plan's: 1. Conformity. with metropolitan system plans. 2. Compatibility with plans of adjacent local governmental units° 3. Apparent consistency with other adopted Metropolitan Development Guide chapters. The Council may provide advisory comments with regard to other aspects such as technical adequacy, completeness and its internal consistency. As part of the review, the Council: "may require a local governmental unit to modify a comprehensive plan or part thereof which may have a substantial impact on or contain a substantial departure from metropolitan system plans." The Council must complete its review of the local comprehensive plan within 120 days following the issuance of the order to commence plan review. The review of the Ramsey plan was commenced on October 21, 1981 and the review deadline is February I8, 1982. DESCRIPTION OF RAMSEY Ramsey is an outlying community which has experienced dramatic population growth during the past decade. Between 1970 and 1980, the population grew by nearly 430 percent from 2,360 to 10,084. The majority of this growth occurred randomly throughout the community from 197.0 to 1975. The city is located in western Anoka County and is bordered by Sherburne County on the west; the towns of Burns and Oak Grove on the north; the cities of Andover and Anoka on the east; and the City of Dayton across the Mississippi River in Hennepin County to the south. Two school districts provide service to Ramsey--Anoka-Hennepin (11) and Elk River (728). DESCRIPTION OF COMPREHENSIVE PLAN The Ramsey Comprehensive Plan, as revised by the city during the course of the review, provides the basis for more effective and logical management of future developments than has been exercised in the past. The plan acknowledges the existing pattern of fragmented growth throughout the community, and provides the tools for preventing additional premature urbanization outside of the urban service area° The majority of growth in the planning period to 1990 is directed to the area which is scheduled to receive urban services during that period. The plan includes an urban planning area, a portion of which is designated as the 1990 urban service area, and a rural service area. Residential development within the 1990 Urban Service Area is permitted on one-acre lots without sanitary sewer and on 10,800 square-foot lots with sewer. Outside of the 1990 urban service area (regardless of