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<br />DEC-01-':4 THU 09: 12 ID:METROPOLITAN COUNCIL "TEL Ndn:~i.2;291-6550 <br /> <br />t:l192 P02 <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />Community Development Committee of <br /> <br />METROPOLITAN COUNCIL <br />Meara Park Centre, 230 East Fifth Street, Sl. Plnd, Minnesota 55101 <br />612291-6359 TDD 612 291-0904 <br /> <br />Business Item: <br /> <br />DATEr Staff DRAFT For Review (November 30, 1994) <br /> <br />TO. Metropolitan Community Development Committee <br /> <br />FROMa omce of Ulcal Assistance (Bob Davis, 291-6317) <br /> <br />SUBJECf: Ramsey Comprehensive Plan Amendment MUSA Expansion <br />Metropolitan Council Referral File No. 13834.7 <br />Metropolitan Council District 9 <br /> <br />EXECUTIVE SUMMARY <br />DESCRIPTION OF PLAN AMENJ)MENT <br /> <br />The city of Ramsey has submitted a major plan amendment that will add 1,455 gross acres of land <br />to the city's urban service area (MUSA). The proposed MUSA landls generally located to tbe <br />north and weat of current urban service area. See attachments 1 and' 2. The Ramsey amendment <br />would result in 442 net developable acres being added to the current urban service area, 311 acres <br />of which would be for low density residential uses providing approximately 933 lots. The area <br />being added to the MUSA already c:ontains a substantial number of scattered residential <br />dwellings, several parka, an elemenlary s~bool, the closed Ramsey landfill and the abandoned <br />Gateway airport. The area is planned to accommodate a substantial share of the 1,800 new <br />households and 609 additional jobs forecast between 1990 and 2000. <br /> <br />REGIONAL POLICY ISSUES <br /> <br />Ramsey's proposal is a major addition to the urban service area which will satisfy the city's needs <br />through 2000. Urban development proposed for the MUSA addition includes areas zoned for <br />single and multiple family residential, business and industrial uses. <br /> <br />Currently there are over 4,100 households in the city. Less than 10 percent of these households <br />are located within the current MUSA and receive municipal sanitary sewer service. The <br />remaining 3,600+ households are served by individual on.site septic systems most of which are not <br />planned to receive municipal sewer service. While the city did change its rural development <br />policy in 1990 to preclude further development at densities in excess of four units per 40 acres, <br />there are a signIfIcant number of lots of record in the city's rural and rUfal transition areas that <br />will develop at higher density. <br /> <br />Council staff is concerned about city reliance on self-inspections by citizens for solids removal and <br />total on.site system integrity. To avoid unplanned, premature extension of municipal or <br />