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The Metropolitan Council's Development Framework anticipates a 1990 urban- ized land area of about 2 square miles in Ramsey. Further, the Council's 208 Water Quality Plan anticipates a total 1990 population of 13,900 and a 1990 sewered population of 6,000 with a domestic flow of 5.7 MGD from the city. The Council's plan anticipates no industrial flow from the city. The disperity between the size of the 1990 urban area anticipated in the Ramsey Urban Planning District report and the general scale of urban development anticipated in the city by the Development Framework was raised in the 1977 Metropolitan Council review of the city's Urban Planning District report. This is a significant issue which should be addressed as Ramsey completes required planning under the Land Planning Act. This issue may be directly related to the following issue concerning the timing of metropolitan sewer service to Ramsey. Potential resolution of the issue may be linked to a reevaluation of the timing and staging of development within the city's urban service area through 1990. That is, the size of the area may remain the same, but the sequencing of growth within it may have to be adjusted back to more closely reflect the anticipated level of metro- politan sewer service that will be provided through 1990. B. The timin~ of metropolitan sewer service to the city Because of ongoing 201 Facilities Planning Studies, the exact date when metropolitan sewer service will be provided to Ramsey is not currently known. Ramsey is frustrated because of this ambiguity regarding service. Ramsey is also somewhat perplexed by language in the 208 Water Quality Management Plan regarding a second metropolitan sewer service common to the city (in addition to the planned connection at the western border of Anoka) which says: "1981-84 Construct the second connection to Ramsey in accordance with the timing as outlined in the city's approved comprehensive plan.TM The city seems to feel that they cannot effectively plan without knowing more about the timing of metropolitan sewer service. Realities of ongoing 201 planning make it impossible to pr6vide Ramsey with any more definitive direction on metropolitan sewer service than is currently contained in the 208 Water Quality Management Plan at this time. This plan indicates the following: The alternative providing service to Ramsey should be constructed in the 1981-84 time period. Assuming the 201 study will not identify a preferred sewer alternative until 1980, one year to obtain grants to design and build the alternative, one year for plans and specifications and two years to construct the selected alternative (either the CAB interceptor or an expanded Anoka plant)--it will probably be 1984 when metropolitan sewer service will be available. It would appear reasonable that the second '~Ramsey connection could be provided concurrently with the selected alternative in 1984.