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<br /> <br />Land Use Plan <br />Land Use as the Foundation <br />The Land Use Plan serves as the foundation in a series of plans that guides the future of Ramsey. Policy <br />decisions on how the community will change over the next twenty (20) years will have impacts on a <br />variety of systems. <br />Forecasts divided by transportation analysis zones (TAZ) and urban services areas are found in the <br />Transportation Plan and Water Resources Plan respectively. <br />Community Designation <br />Council uses community designations to group communities with similar characteristics in order to more <br />effectively target its policies. The Metropolitan Council uses these community designations to: <br />Guide regional growth and development to areas that have urban infrastructure in place and the <br /> <br />capacity to accommodate development and redevelopment. <br />Establish land use expectations, including overall densities and development patterns, for <br /> <br />different community designations. <br />Outline the respective roles of the Metropolitan Council and Ramsey along with strategies for <br /> <br />planning for forecasted growth. <br />An Emerging Suburban Edge Community is characterized as transitioning from rural to developed. It <br />should be noted that although a portion of Ramsey certainly is transition in this manner, a significant <br />portion of the community remains guided for larger-lot, single-family development on private well and <br />septic along with goals to protect a significant amount of exceptional quality ecological resources. <br />The Emerging Suburban Edge includes cities, townships, and portions of both that are in the early stages <br />of transitioning into urbanized levels of development. Strategically located between Suburban Edge and <br />Rural communities, the Emerging Suburban Edge communities offer both connections to urban <br />amenities and the proximity to open spaces that characterizes a rural lifestyle. Often, the cities and <br />townships in the Emerging Suburban Edge are in more than one Community Designation. In the majority <br />of Emerging Suburban Edge communities, less than 40% of the land has been developed. <br />Communities in the Emerging Suburban Edge have a mix of residential, rural, and agricultural areas, <br />often including lower-density single-family neighborhoods and small downtown service centers. The <br />growth patterns in these communities demonstrate the challenges of changing from rural to suburban. <br />New developments are typically built in a traditional suburban pattern, characterized by large curving <br />streets, limited through-roadways, and auto-oriented street design. Emerging Suburban Edge <br />communities have access to regional wastewater services (either municipally owned or regional <br />City of Ramsey 2040 Comprehensive Plan Update <br />Land Use Plan <br />Page 1 of 11 <br /> <br />