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117 <br />Allocations in the Land Use Chapter, based on planned densities and associated acreages available <br />for development, the City can expect a minimum of 528 housing units. This meets the minimum <br />requirements. <br />Implementation Plan <br />Balance of Rural Character and Urban Growth <br />The existing housing stock in Ramsey is an asset for the entire City, not just its current owners as <br />ownership changes throughout time. The safety, maintenance, and care of Ramsey's current <br />housing stock will ensure its longevity, sustain our older neighborhoods, and allow the housing <br />stock to evolve as our residents evolve. <br />Strategy: Rehabilitate and improve housing stock to preserve rural character and enhance <br />existing neighborhoods <br />Policies and Actions: <br />1. Provide incentive -based approaches for individual improvements to private properties <br />2. Eliminate blighting influences such as unkempt yards, glaring lights, unscreened storage, <br />noise, inappropriate vehicle storage, etc. <br />3. Identify and remove substandard housing units that are economically unfeasible to <br />rehabilitate. <br />4. Create a simple webpage/portal that allows residents to voice anonymously code <br />enforcement concerns <br />5. Create relationships with neighborhood leaders and Community Development Staff <br />6. Create and implement a strategy for targeted outreach to homeowners of aging housing <br />7. Monitor the City's housing supply to ensure quality, low-income options <br />8. Create Eliminate blighting influences such as unkempt yards, glaring lights, unscreened <br />storage, noise, inappropriate vehicle storage, etc. <br />Strategy: Provide sufficient housing options for all types of residents; provide lifecycle <br />housing options <br />Policies and Actions: <br />1. Complete a housing needs assessment and analysis in the immediate future <br />2. Create a policy (allow, not allow, and under what conditions) accessory dwelling units <br />(ADUs) on single family lots in order to maintain rural character while increasing lifecycle <br />housing options and increasing affordability levels <br />3. Create policy allowing flexibility for senior projects to convert to affordable housing when <br />the demand for senior housing changes <br />4. Encourage developers to consider all aspects of resident needs, such as one level living for <br />seniors, shared workspaces in multifamily buildings, and wheel -chair accessible doorway <br />widths in senior housing <br />5. Allow higher density housing options near The COR and the Northstar Commuter Rail <br />Station; in neighborhoods furthest from The COR, allow new housing within existing range <br />of housing densities <br />Cily of RAMSEY <br />August 2018 Draft <br />Comprehensive Plan 2040 <br />