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7550 Sunwood Drive NW Ramsey, MN 55303 City Hall: 763.427.1410 Fax: 763.427.5543 www.cityoframsey.com Vision The Vision Statement was created for the purpose of crafting update land use scenarios and is not intended to approve or disapprove individual projects. Projects must be reviewed using the City’s Zoning Code as the official land use control. The Vision Statement is not a regulatory tool, yet a visionary tool. The COR will serve as a City Center primarily to bring people of Ramsey together that embraces natural market opportunities.The COR will alsoattract energy from the surrounding region. It will be a unique destination, technology-accessible, and serve as a gathering place. It will feature unique architecture stressing historical feel and function. Development-Wide Assumptions 1.The development is part of a broader GROWTH MANAGEMENT STRATEGY that protects the City’s primary land use goal to respect the BALANCE OF RURAL AND URBAN CHARACTER. 2.The development shall take a MIX OF USES within the development, which is also known as HORIZONTALLY MIXED USE approach versus a strict adherence to traditional mixed-use definitions to require vertically mixed-use buildings. The mix of land use districts and land use types within the development as a whole shall guide success of mixed use, not strictly mix of uses within a building, block, or individual district. These types of mixes although not required, are encouraged. The ‘mix of uses’ approach shall not preclude flexible first floor and vertically mixed use buildings. 3.Our vision includes significant areas guided for a variety of RETAIL OFFERINGS. HOUSING DENSITY is important to that vision. The emphasis of the master plan concepts is to GUIDE LAND USE, and is NOT SPECIFIC SITE PLAN REVIEW. Future developers shall have the creative freedom to propose other concepts that are generally in line with OVERALL VISION.