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Your wrong decision here today will further bury us with the additional costs of <br />maintaining our infrastructures, schools, police, fire, streets and more. <br /> <br />You are overextending us financially. As developers build, take their millions and run, or <br />stealthily drift away, you will look to us to increase our contributions to cover the need. <br />()ur State has been deficit spending for years, even with the major spending cuts we have <br />made. This is not the time for our City to be creating big ideas, making deals with <br />developers, or spending big money. Middle class America is being squeezed from all <br />sides by Government taxing, Private price gouging (greed), our desire to maintain our <br />standard of living. There isn't enough to go around any more. <br /> <br />Council members, you are wrong to be considering this, but even more wrong for giving <br />Mr. John Peterson, of Oakwoods Development Corporation the confidents and go ahead <br />to spend large amounts of money and time planning and dealing on the purchase of <br />polluted development properties known to us as the Gun Club. <br /> <br />We t'~el our right to live safely and securely while in pursuit of happiness is being <br />threatened by the very people we voted into office to protect them. Our rights are being <br />trampled to allow for the wants of a few in "trusted" positions. By forcing this Comp <br />Plan Amendment on us you are effectively ending our ability to continue living our lives <br />on safer streets because, this plan turns Traprock Street from 155th to the cul-de-sac <br />(about a ¼ mile), into a thoroughfare to a 265 home development (Sweet Ridge) and <br />further impact all residents as this initiative will create a developer enhanced precedent, <br />causing chain reactions of development after development at 800 or more homes per year <br />in the City of Ramsey for years to come. This level of development will impact all <br />residents of Ramsey. <br /> <br />Think about additional vehicles, thousands per year. All roads lead to Highway 10 and <br />[Iighway 10 is maxed out already because most of us travel south and east to get to work. <br />Let's not kid ourselves about relief coming anytime before 2015 for Highway 10. That is <br />a lot of years of misery for Ramsey citizens, and who wants to stop and shop after sitting <br />in traffic for an hour. Today, we just want to get home to the wonderful livability of <br />Ramsey as it exists today. Not to a bedroom community of tomorrow because we <br />abandoned our comprehensive plan and created the developer's dream, a past practice, a <br />precedent that prohibits control of our destiny. If any of us were sitting in your chairs <br />tonight, we would not allow this to happen to you as a citizen of Ramsey. <br /> <br />And so, council members, We ask you to go back to the Comprehensive Plan, get the <br />horse and put it back in front of the cart, and keep it there. <br /> <br />Growth, beyond a maximum 200 single family homes, per year, is not allowed in our <br />Comprehensive Plan as approved by the Met Council. Do not provide for or allow <br />developers to cloud your judgment. <br /> <br />The biggest mistake this city made was backing down from the development machine. <br />The threat of developers suing the City to develop land was an issue worth funding and <br /> <br /> <br />