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Land Use 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. This has been updated accordingly. The Rural Development (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 area djacent to one another, it is unclear whether the density of this transitional development would be within the two categories' allowed density ranges. The City has existing ordinances in place for transitional devlopment from rural development to Low Density Residential. The Mixed Use category is idenified 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. The City utilizes it's COR Master Plan which contains subdistricts for Low/Medium/High density housing which serve as zoning districts within the overarching land use guidance of Mixed Use. Density Calculations - The Plan needs to demonstrate how the land use guiding is anticipated to achieve minimum development/redevelopment densities of 15 units per acre within 1/2 mile of the Northstar Commuter rail station. Minimum average net densities within 1/2 mile of the Ramsey Northstar Commuter rail station must meet the minimum of 15 units per acre based on the standards in the 2040 Transportation Policy Plan. An additional table, Table 33 has been added that provides the densities within a 1/2 mile of the Ramsey Northstar Commuter rail station that shows an average density of 16.2 units/acre within the 1/2 mile of the station.