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October 28, 2021 <br /> Bruce Westby, City Engineer <br /> City of Ramsey <br /> 7550 Su nwood Drive NW <br /> Ramsey, MN 55303 <br /> RE: City of Ramsey Environmental Assessment Works heet(EAW)—Trott Brook Crossing <br /> Project <br /> Metropolitan Council Review No. 22692-1 <br /> Metropolitan Council District No. 9 <br /> Dear Bruce Westby: <br /> The Metropolitan Council received the EAWfor the Trott Brook Crossing project in Ramsey on <br /> September 27, 2021. The proposed development Trott Brook Crossing is proposed on approximately <br /> 200.5 acres of land in the northern portion of the City of Ramsey,Anoka County, north of Trott Brook, <br /> east of Nowthen Blvd NW. The project will include as many as 275 single-family homes and parkland <br /> with tree preservation. Site developmentwill include installation of municipal sewer and water, mass <br /> grading, and stormwater management practices. <br /> Council staff review finds that the EAW appears complete with respect to regional concerns and an EIS <br /> is not necessary for regional purposes. However, the project as proposed raises potential issues of <br /> conformance with the regional wastewater system and consistency with regional land use policy. In <br /> addition, the EAW contains some inaccuracies that should be corrected priorto finalizing the document. <br /> POTENTIAL SYSTEM CONFORMANCE AND REGIONAL POLICY INCONSISTENCY: <br /> Item 9 —Land Use (Eric Wojchik, 651-602-1330) <br /> Item 8accurately details that a Comprehensive Plan Amendment which includes a Metropolitan <br /> Urban Service Area (MUSA) boundary adjustment is required for this development. However, <br /> Item 9 incorrectly states that the entire site is guided as Low Density Residential (LDR) (3-4 <br /> units per acre) in the City's 2040 Plan. Most of the site is within the MUSA and guided as LDR; <br /> however, the southwestern portion of the site (near 168th Avenue NW) is not within the MUSA <br /> and therefore not guided with the LDR land use, which reflects sewered development. Item 9 <br /> should be revised to clearly state this. <br /> Item 9 also states that the development is below the required minimum density of the LDR land <br /> use (3-4 units per acre). If the development is planned for a residential density of 2.2 units per <br /> acre, as the EAW states, this density is inconsistent with the LDR land use and therefore <br /> inconsistent with the City's 2040 Plan. This reduction in density, which will reduce the City's <br /> overall residential density to at or just below units per acre, may constitute underutilization of <br /> the regional wastewater system. Underutilization of the wastewater system is a regional system <br /> conformance issue. <br /> 390 Robert Street North <br /> 0 U N C I L <br />