Resolution - #85-082 - 04/16/1985

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Councilmember Cox introduced the following resolution and moved for its adoption: RESOLUTION #85-82 WHEREAS, the City of Ramsey's Comprehensive Plan states in Part I, Chapter C, Page 43 that residential densities in the Rural Area shall be one unit per ten acres; and WHEREAS, written guidelines for actually implementing this one unit per ten acres density are desireable and necessary in order to facilitate this density requir~ent; and WHEREAS, the City finds that it is important to maintain the one unit per ten acres rural residential density requirement for the following reasons: 1. To preserve the rural character of the the City's designated Rural Area; and 2. To encourage development in the City's designated Urban Area. NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RAMSEY, ANOKAQOUNTY, STATE OF MINNESOTA, as follows: That the City of Ramsey shall administer its one unit per ten acres rural residential density requirement as follows: All planned unit developments and/or developments over 40 acres shall be developed in one or more phases and each phase shall be required to comply with the rural residential density requirement; be Developments and non-planned unit developments of 40 acres or less which do not comply with the density requirement shall be considered individually to determine whether hardships exist. If such circumstances are found, the City may consider utili- zing undeveloped Rural Area acreage in order for such developments to comply with the density re- quir~ent. However, the minimum lot size for such developments shall be at least 2.5 acres; That the City's Rural Area consists of 14,412 acres including streets, parklands, wetlands, and flood- ways; d. That as of March 20, 1985 the total developed area in the City's Rural Area was 6,753 acres; and e. That the difference between the gross area in the Rural Area (14,412 acres) and the total developed