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City of Ramsey 2030 Comprehensive Plan <br />Chapter 5: Land Use <br />1. Require developments to adhere to environmentally sensitive design <br />and construction standards. (See "Protecting Water Quality in Urban <br />Areas" a publication on Best Management Practices by the MPCA). <br />2. Encourage high quality and unique design and site planning <br />3. Allow for techniques to minimize infrastructure costs such as <br />centralized storm ponds, shared driveways and loading docks and <br />optimum street widths. <br />4. Facilitate the clean up and redevelopment of brownfields and <br />underutilized sites within the places to work area. <br />5. Promote economic development in the City of Ramsey. <br />6. Continue to market, develop and expand the Ramsey Business Park. <br />7. Develop and implement a business retention and expansion program. <br />8. Work with the educational entities such as the Anoka High School <br />and Anoka Hennepin Technical College to enhance employee - <br />training programs and connect welfare recipients to work <br />opportunities as part of the welfare to work program. <br />9. Require individual sites to be connected to a trail system that links <br />employees with the Town Center, parks and neighborhoods. <br />10. Work with the Anoka County Traveler and the Metropolitan Council <br />Transit Organization to address transit and employee transportation <br />issues. <br />Business Park, Office Park and Commercial Performance Criteria <br />In order to ensure proper siting and development of commercial, office <br />and industrial uses within the designated areas all projects should be <br />evaluated based on the following criteria: <br />1. The project is planned as an integral element of the larger <br />community with interconnecting streets, paths and greenways. <br />2. The project is planned to minimize conflicts between non- <br />business/industrial uses (for example parking lots and loading docks <br />should be located away from or adequately buffered from residential <br />neighborhoods). <br />3. Opportunities to minimize infrastructure and other elements of the <br />built environment are incorporated into the design (for example <br />shared parking and driveways or decked parking). <br />4. The project displays elements that enhance or build upon the identity <br />and image of the Ramsey Community and the project. <br />City of Ramsey 2030 Comprehensive Plan Page 5-29 <br />