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RURAL CHARACTER <br />• Maintain open areas <br />• Keep property taxes low for multi acre property owners <br />— towns don't have to be all high density <br />• Keep well and septic available to low density areas <br />• Natural buffers (visual) — transitions from density areas <br />• Don't add street lights <br />o Shrouds for existing lights <br />• Maintain area for local source farms <br />o Communities need to provide more for <br />themselves <br />o Provide tax breaks <br />• Biology and Nature workshops <br />o Bioblitz <br />• Shade tree education and protection <br />• Education and incentives for gardening and micro <br />farming <br />o Local food producers <br />• Promote land use for livestock — small scale <br />• Maintain natural corridors for wildlife movement <br />• Keep and develop wildlife areas <br />• Timed lights in community areas <br />• Non-GMO zones <br />PARKS <br />• Repair — i.e. boardwalks at Itasca Park <br />• Plant more shrubs and native grass <br />• No spray on plantings <br />• Add public art — parks and COR <br />• Community flower beds/parks <br />• Recreation Center <br />• Windbreak at dog park <br />• Playgrounds within neighborhoods, not just by parks <br />• Embrace the rivers — as an asset — use as a source of <br />tourism <br />• Finish Central Park — lights, parking, state tourney <br />• More canoe rentals <br />TRANSPORTATION AND ROADS <br />• Centralize business area around COR versus sprawl <br />• Safe, pedestrian /bicycling friendly existing roads <br />• Slow down speed limits in residential areas — 40 max <br />o Varlolite Street <br />o Green Valley Road (63) <br />• Highway 10 Congestion (Park & Rides?) - Light rail is <br />great <br />• Highway 10 stoplights by Quik Trip and Sunfish Lake <br />Blvd — why? <br />o Please put an overpass in — my journey takes 10- <br />20 minutes longer <br />• Sustainability versus growth <br />SCHOOLS <br />• Ramsey Middle School(s) <br />• Ramsey High School <br />• Modular — make expandable — future proof <br />• Multi -Use <br />• Activities keep families in the area <br />7550 Sunwood Drive NW • Ramsey, MN 55303 <br />City Hall: 763.427.1410 • Fax: 763.427.5543 <br />www.cityoframsey.com <br />MISCELLANEOUS COMMENTS <br />• Would like to see plans for another senior building in the <br />area <br />• We need more public awareness/teaching of the laws <br />concerning bike trails that cross streets. Both kids and <br />adults ride right across the streets without looking <br />assuming the driver will stop. I read on MN Law that <br />they only have right of way if they get off their bike and <br />walk it across as then they are considered a pedestrian in <br />a crosswalk. Drivers need to know which is correct also. <br />Public info would be appreciated. Thanks. <br />• Please leave Rivlyn Avenue as a residential street. Do <br />not bow to pressure from Lano, Dahlheimer, etc., to <br />make it a frontage road. Please keep it residential! <br />Thanks <br />• Stop sign at Iodine and 1441 — daycares on corner — <br />speeding cars <br />1r is our mission to work together to responsibly grow our community, and to provide quality, con -effective and efficient government services. <br />