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<br /> <br /> <br />7550 Sunwood Drive NW Ramsey, MN 55303 <br />City Hall: 763.427.1410 Fax: 763.427.5543 <br />www.cityoframsey.com <br />Places to eat, shop, and be entertained were a key component of the original development. While other <br />land uses have succeeded in continued growth, retail goals have struggled to keep pace. The City has <br />continued to evaluate our retail marketing strategy, and amendments to this plan represent a broader <br />effort to advance these goals. <br />Citywide, the community has over 150 acres of undeveloped or redevelopment areas guided for future <br />retail growth. In comparison, the Riverdale shopping center in Coon Rapids is approximately 200 acres. <br />Coupled with proximity to Elk River and physical barriers such as the Mississippi River and Rum River, it <br />is not likely that the City will be successful in developing this amount of retail within this 20 year <br />planning period, if at all. Additionally, the market for larger retail users is quickly changing with adapting <br />technologies. The City’s market experts have encouraged the City to re-evaluate its retail strategies. <br />EMPHASIS: The City continues to plan for a significant amount of retail growth within The COR and <br />throughout the community. The recommendations below are not intended to de-emphasize our retail <br />goals, yet strengthen said retail goals and focus on more appropriate areas for future growth. <br />Planning Commission Recommendation: The northwest quadrant of the development (bordered <br />by Armstrong Boulevard, Bunker Lake Boulevard, <br />Zeolite Street, and Sunwood Drive) should be amended <br />to strengthen the LAKE ITASCA GREENWAY, create <br />SMALLER DESTINATION RETAIL USERS. Half of this <br />quadrant should be re-guided for an APPROPRIATE <br />RESIDENTIAL USE, with DENSITY appropriate for the <br />type of overall land use plan for The COR. <br />This is the area of MOST SIGNIFICANT CHANGE recommended by the Planning Commission. The <br />Planning Commission collaborated on developing multiple land use scenarios. The overall approach was <br />to divide the northwest quadrant into four (4) smaller sub-quadrants divided by future public roadways <br />and greenways and allocating half the quadrants to smaller, destination retailers and the other half to <br />residential uses. Based on feedback and reconciling multiple angles of consensus, the land use map <br />below represents the primary recommended land use map. <br /> <br />