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INTERIM POLICY FOR PROPOSED LAND USE CHANGES <br /> <br />Recently, the Ramsey City Council and Planning Conurdssion have met in joint meetings to <br />discuss updating the Comprehensive Plan. The Comprehensive Plan is being updated to anticipate <br />~md lhcilitate furore development, some of which is currently in front of the Planning Commission <br />~md City Council. At the last joint meeting held on February 24, 2005, both bodies heard that due to <br />thc need for thc Metropolitma Council to finish its systems plan, the City will not be able to <br />complete the overall Comprehensive Plan update until the Fall of 2005. <br /> <br />ri'he City Council has approved two Comprehensive Plan Amendments (CPAs); one for the Gun <br />Club prope~.ly (Sweet Bay Ridge) and another for the Brookfield subdivision near Trott Brook. <br />Several members of the Planning Commission expressed a desire to wait for action on these items <br />until thc overall Comprehensive Plan Update is completed in the Fall of 2005. At their March <br />meeting, thc Planning Commission recommended denial of the Comprehensive Plan Amendments <br />duc to the pending update of the Ramsey Comprehensive Plan and the lack of any interim review <br />standards. Since the March meeting, Staffhas received another subdivision application that will <br />require an exp~sion of the MUSA line (Marigold Ponds along Hwy. 47) from Oakavood Land <br />l)cvclopment. <br /> <br />Given the fact that we are entering into the 2005 building season, the City Council and Staffare <br />concerned that not allowing any of the proposed developments to be considered until the Fall of <br />2005 will effectively bring to a halt several opportunities for residential development in 2005. <br /> <br />Recognizing the need to continue to foster development and not unnecessarily delay worthy <br />development projects, the City Council has given Staffdirection on what criteria to use in the <br />intcrhn until the Comprehensive Plan Update is completed in the Fall of 2005. The City Council <br />has also created a policy that will require that the Comprehensive Plan Amendment to run <br />concurrently with the preliminary plat approval process. This will allow for the Planning <br />Commission and City Council to have all of the necessary information when considering a <br />development proposal. The following items will need to be reviewed at the time the <br />Co~nprchcnsive Plan Amendment is being considered unless the issues will be reviewed as part of <br />thc development process through another study (i.e. an EAW as part of a subdivision proposal). <br /> <br /> /. 7'he proposed land use considers traffic levels and patterns. <br /> a. Tra. ffic impacts of the proposal should be assessed for adjacent streets and <br />q[/i, cled collector streets. Impacts resulting in a safety hazard, increase in fire or police <br />re~v~om'e time, or substcmtial increase in traffic congestion should be mitigated. <br /> b. Potential future travel corridors should be identified and preserved where <br />,/ieasih/e. <br /> <br />2. Tt~c Communily's expenditures for new or additional services required by the <br />12ropoxed land use will be recovered if the proposal goes forward. <br /> <br />3. Eni,ironmenlally .¥ensitive resources should be known, and as per section 9.21. O1 of <br />tl?e city code "development shall be so regulated as to minimize risk of environmental <br />dctma~e Io these areas." <br /> <br />Draft 3.29.05 <br /> <br /> <br />