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Tim Gladhill, City of Ramsey September 26, 2019 Page 3 *The employment forecast for Ramsey was revised, at the City's request, at the meeting of Metropolitan Council on January 10, 2018. ** Slightly different numbers of 2020 households appear in different tables of the City's Plan; TAZ allocations (Table 41) use the 9,500 figure. • The Land Use plan describes how land supply and staging accommodate forecasted growth. The City analyzes that the land supply within MUSA (1,204 acres guided) can accommodate 5,506 housing units at the midpoint of allowed density ranges (Tables 32-33). Council staff did not find a similar table for rural housing capacity. Table 60 describes a future increase in unsewered households, outside the MUSA. Council staff will reanalyze this after discussion of forecasts, as described above. • The Plan needs to include some measure of employment -bearing land use intensity. Acceptable measurements of intensity include Floor Area Ratio (FAR), or building footprint coverage, or jobs per acre, or setback and height restrictions. • The Transportation Plan includes an allocation of the forecast to Transportation Analysis Zones (Table 41). The allocations may need to be revised, pending an agreement on an acceptable forecast revision. Council staff will reanalyze this after discussion of the forecast issue, described above. Advisory Comments • Council staff find that the TAZ table allocates 9,500 households in year 2020. The City should verify whether the request is for 9,500 or 9,600 households. • If the TAZ table is revised, a re -run of transportation network modeling (AADT, LOS, etc.) is not required. Council staff only look for a TAZ table that is ready for use by the Council, the City, or Anoka County for transportation models. Land Use (Raya Esmaeili, 651-602-1616) Future Land Use • The Plan needs to include a higher resolution Future Land Use map with narrower width parcel lines for better legibility. The resolution of the current map does not allow for a thorough review of the Future Land Use map. • The total acreage of land uses within the City in Table 28: Future Land Use Categories by Planning Period is reported as 16,950 acres. However, the total acreage of land uses within the City based on Table 27: 2016 Existing Land Use Categories is over 19,000 acres. Staff are unable to determine the source of this difference. If there is no land being annexed from the City of Ramsey into a neighboring City, the Existing and Future Land Use acreage need to match. • The Rural Developing (0.1-0.4 units/acre) and Low Density Residential (3-4 units/acre) density ranges leave a gap for planned development densities of 0.4 to three units per acre. While the Plan acknowledges a transitional development approach where the two land uses are adjacent to one another, it is unclear whether the density of this transitional development would be within the two categories' allowed density ranges. • The Mixed Use category is identified as Mixed Use Low (5-15 units/acre), Medium (8-25 units/acre) and High (15-75 units/acre) in both the land use category descriptions and Tables 30, 31, and 32. However, there is only one Mixed Use category identified on the Future Land Use map. Land use information needs to be consistently displayed throughout the Plan.