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Anoka County MINNESOTA Respectful, Innovative, Fiscally Responsible Anoka County 2019 Multi -Jurisdictional All Hazards Mitigation Plan Columbia Heights School District #13 covers the city. The city has two elementary schools, one middle school, and one high school, a private catholic grade school, an alternative school and a charter school. There is one medical clinic, many dental offices, childcare facilities and a large nursing home complex. Due to the elderly population of CH, Crestview Nursing Home has grown into a very large complex. Beside the nursing home, it includes a 75-unit independent living apartment building, and two large assisted living buildings all connected together. They also have another assisted living building off campus, which includes a locked memory care unit. Columbia Heights provides public water and sewer service. Water is purchased from the City of Minneapolis. The city also has a complete storm water drainage system. Telephone service is provided by Century Link Communications with many residential consumers using the cable phone service provided by the city cable company, Comcast. CenterPoint Energy provides natural gas service. Xcel Energy provides electrical service. Columbia Heights has 16 parks of varying sizes and amenities. Anoka County has one park within the City. Huset Park, where most of the athletic fields are located, has new athletic fields, walking paths and a splash pad. The City has three wading pools in its park system. The City has a small area that has been prone to surface flooding that has caused significant backups of the sewer system into homes. Along with a plan to assist homeowners with the cost of installing a valve on their main sewer lines in their homes to shut off future sewer backups, the city has made repairs and upgrades to the storm water and sewer system in the area to minimize possible future flooding/backups. (City of Columbus There are two primary commercial areas within Columbus which account for 6% of the total city area. The first is a two (2) mile long corridor along the southerly portions of Lake Drive north of Lino Lakes. The second commercial area (3 square miles) surrounds a portion of Interstates 35W, 35E, and 35 and is designated in Columbus as the I-35 Corridor. There are approximately 535 gross acres and 406 net acres of developed commercial and industrial uses within the Lake Drive and the I-35 corridor. Business development along Lake Drive has historically allowed a mix of commercial and industrial land uses. The Lake Drive commercial/industrial area is currently served with private sewer and water systems. The entire I-35 Corridor is located within the designated Metro area MUSA district. Municipal services are planned for the entire district and will be completed in phases. The first three phases are completed with only the southeastern portion of the Freeway District not serviced with water and sewer mains in 2019. Columbus is the home of the Running Aces harness track, the City's largest business, a regional entertainment facility located close to the I-35 interchange and situated among other planned higher intensity commercial retail uses. Columbus conducted an informal survey of 72 businesses in the City in the spring of 2008. A response by 55 businesses (75%) revealed a current total of 1,094 full time jobs and 283 seasonal part-time positions. At Running Aces opening in 2008, they anticipated adding at least 350-400 full and part-time jobs to the numbers stated above. In 2018, the nine (9) major and leading employers within the City represents 796 full-time and approximately 200 seasonal / part-time jobs. 63 Commented [RK79]: Updated - 2019 Commented [RK80]: Updated 2019