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Memo <br /> <br />DATE: <br /> <br />TO: <br /> <br />FROM: <br /> <br />RE: <br /> <br />February 23, 2006 <br /> <br />Ramsey Planning Commission <br /> <br />Community Development Staff <br /> <br />Staff Update <br /> <br />CASE #: / ~) <br /> <br />Past Plannin~ Commission Cases: In the month of February, 2006, the City Council <br />considered the following items: <br /> <br />Sweetbay Ridge (former trap shoot range) received approval to begin tree removal efforts to <br />facilitate site contamination clean-up, wetland mitigation, and site preparation for sewer and <br />water trunk lines and roads. <br /> <br />Anoka County Communications received approval of their request for a Conditional Use <br />Permit to construct a communications tower on the City Hall campus near Alpine Drive. <br /> <br />· Meadow final plat, the redevelopment of the City Hall campus with single family, <br /> commercial and public/quasi-public uses will be on the February 28 City Council agenda. <br /> <br />Skyline Pointe sketch plan was reviewed by the Planning Commission in February. It was <br />proposed as a 59-unit townhome project on the east side of Nowthen Blvd., across from the <br />City Hall campus. The Planning Commission consensus' was that increasing the density of <br />this land use from low to medium was not compatible with the existing single family uses <br />and intensified traffic concerns in an already busy area. The developer has revised the sketch <br />plan to 8 single family bungalows fronting on 151st Lane N.W. and 46 townhomes on the <br />remainder of the property adjacent to Nowthen Blvd. <br /> <br />Ramsey Crossings. At the January 18, 2006 City Council Work Session, City Staffpresented <br />a redevelopment study for the area near Ramsey Town Center, west of Armstrong Boulevard. <br />This area has been discussed as a development or redevelopment area for a number of years. <br />City Staff believes that this area should be developed in a way that provides for commercial <br />and retail and offices opportunities that would both benefit from as well as the Ramsey Town <br />Center. This new development area is not intended to be a Ramsey Town Center II, rather it <br />is intended to be an area that, while different in development configuration and providing for <br />different types and scale of development, it is a complement to the Ramsey Town Center <br />uses. At the February 14, 2006 City Council meeting, City Council adopted the Ramsey <br />Crossings Study and authorized initiation of eminent domain proceedings for the acquisition <br />of parcels west of Armstrong Blvd. for redevelopment. <br /> <br />PC: 03.02.06 <br /> <br />119 <br /> <br /> <br />