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2001 Comprehensive Plan Amended February 26, 2002 The City will work to identify the potential of the Central Rural Reserve for urban services after the year 2020 in order to eventually use Waste Water Interceptor capacity of 3.84 mg/d provided to the City by the Metropolitan Council. In the interim, this area will be retained as the Rural Preserve with ordinances requiring 4/40 density until the City submits a Comprehensive Plan amendment for this area. 4. Staging of Development--MUSA Expansion Future expansion of Urban Services must be done in a manner consistent with the provisions and process outlined in the City Charter, included as Appendix H. Within the 2000 MUSA there are approximately 280 acres of vacant developable land zoned residential under the existing zoning map (although a good portion of this is within shoreland management areas and approximately 35 acres includes already platted single family lots). Since 1992, residential land within MUSA has been consumed at 65 to 75 acres per year on average9. Given current trends and densities, available residential land within MUSA would be depleted by 2003 or sooner and would accommodate less than 1,000 total units or an absorption rate of roughly 250 units per year~°. This would likely lead to a demand for MUSA expansion to meet residential needs by the year 2000. The future land use plan converts some land within the MUSA previously guided for commercial/industrial development to residential. It also increases the density of development within urban areas and encourages more multi-family housing to accommodate life-cycle-housing and affordable housing goals. The future land use plan contains 432 acres of developable residential land (including vacant platted lots) within the current 2000 MUSA, 60 acres of which are designated for medium- to high-density housing. Given the densities proposed in the future land use plan, roughly 2,240 units could be accommodated on this land.~ However, typical development patterns will likely not attain this level due to the desire to provide a transition between existing residential development and future urban development. 9 This figure is based on the number of urban permits issued in a single year from 1992 to 1997 divided by a minimum density of 2.5 umts per acre for the lower limit of consumption and a maximum density of 3 units per acre for the upper limit of consumption. The densities were determined by using the Anoka County GIS basemap data to determine average units per acre for various developments. l0 This figure depends on the density of development that the developer decides would be the most marketable for the product proposed to be built. The current zoning code calls out a maximum density of 4 units per gross acre for single family in the R-1U district, which contains the bulk of vacant residential land. However, the zoning code requires a minimum lot size of 10,800 square feet for single-family units in R-1U districts, which poses a barrier to obtaining an actual density of 4 units per acre. Existing residential housing is consistently developed at densities of 3 to 3.5 umts per net acre, which equates roughly to 3 units per gross acre. ~ Total umts were based on densities of 15 units per net acre for urban high density, 7 units per acre for medium density, 4 units per net acre for low density residential. Ramsey Comprehensive Plan Amended February 26, 2002 Page 17-32