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Commissioners. He suggested Ramsey should maintain a 60% new household to 40% new job <br />creation ratio. Mr. Hamborg then reiterated his concern with the $6 million relationship to <br />enhance favor toward amending the Comprehensive Plan and suggested it would be a mistake to <br />send a sewer line in the wrong direction, under or over sizing it. He suggested that on top of the <br />$13 to $18 million sewer expansion project there is also a $30 million commitment to the Town <br />Center project to include a new $16 million municipal building, and millions spent on recent <br />sewer and water expansion in that neighborhood, or well over $50 million for just these projects. <br /> <br />Mr. l lamborg stated the Council is over extending the City financially and will look to residents <br />fbr increased contributions to cover needs as developers build and then take their millions and <br />leave. In addition, the State has been deficit spending for years so this is not the time for Ramsey <br />to be creating big ideas, making deals with developers, or spending big money. <br /> <br />Mr. t [amborg suggested the Council is wrong to consider this project and give Mr. Peterson the <br />confidence to go ahead and spend large amounts of money to further this project and purchase <br />polluted development properties known as the Gun Club. He felt his right to live kafely and <br />securely while in pursuit of happiness is' being threatened by the very people voted into'office to <br />protect them. The Plan amendment turns Traprock Street from 155th to the cubde-sac into a <br />thoroughfare fbr a 265 home development and cause a chain reaction of development, which will <br />impact all residents of Ramsey. He asked the Council to think about the additional vehicles, all <br />headed to Highway #10, which is maxed out already as all roads lead to Highway #10. Mr. <br />Hamborg asked the Council to not kid themselves about relief coming any time soon. Today <br />residents want to get home to the wonderful, livability of Ramsey, not a bedroom community of <br />tomorrow because the City has abandoned its Comprehensive Plan and created a developer's <br />dream. <br /> <br />Mr. t-lamborg stated if residents sat in the Council's chairs, they would not allow this to happen. <br />He asked the Council to go back to the Comprehensive Plan and get the "horse in front of the <br />cart" because 800 homes per year is not allowed by the Comprehensive Plan. He asked the <br />Council to not allow developers to cloud their judgment or back down from the development <br />machine. He asserted the threat of developers suing the City to develop land was an issue worth <br />~'unding and should 'have argued it all the-way. The Council's job is to protect resident's rights. <br />Changes of this magnitude to the City's Comprehensive Plan impact many citizens and are not <br />amendments but re-writes of the Plan that are not allowed until 2008. He stated the City cannot <br />al'ibrd to allow this abandonment of the Comprehensive Plan, which' provides for controlled <br />development at a maximum of 200 single-family homes per year. There is no error in the <br />Comprehensive Plan, it was debated at length and embodied a hard won consensus that should <br />not be sacrificed for insider profit. <br /> <br />Mr. Hamborg stated no citizens planned for City growth at this level or had notice that the <br />Comprehensive Plan could not be trusted because it would not be honored. He stated the <br />Council's vote opposing this amendment and agreement to follow the sound existing Plan is just <br />~tnd right fbr Ramsey and would represent the citizens of Ramsey instead of a handful of rich <br />connected powerful men. <br /> <br />City Council / March 22, 2005 <br /> Page 12 of 38 <br /> <br /> <br />