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July 17, 1997 Ms. Linda O'Connor Office of Local Assistance Metropolitan Council Mears Park Centre 230 East 5th Street Saint Paul, MN 55101 -1634 Dear Ms. O'Connor: • City of Ramsey 15153 NOWTHEN BOULEVARD N.W., RAMSEY, MINNESOTA 55303 13 PHONE (612) 427 -1410 FAX (612) 427 -5543 TDD (612) 427 -8591 Please find enclosed an application for Metropolitan Council local planning assistance from the City of Ramsey. We respectfully request grant assistance in the amount of $20,000. We also request loan assistance for the gap between the grant award and the total project cost minus other available sources of funding. Presently, this gap is estimated at $37,795. Our total project has a cost estimate of $77,795. Included is $72,795 of consulting services pursuant to the attached work plan. You will also note within the work plan that the City is responsible for meeting and printing/publication expenses. These expenses are currently projected to be $5,000. The City of Ramsey completed a Comprehensive Plan in 1980. Since that time there has been a series of amendments including every element of those chapters required by the Metropolitan Council. However, through these plan amendments, the City has not provided for a planning process which considers all plan elements at one time. The City has also not provided for a community -wide visioning process within the plan review. The 1998 Comprehensive Plan will provide for both. The City of Ramsey is a community which has been growing at a rate which far exceeds Metropolitan Council and local projections. Over the past decade, Ramsey has added an annual average of approximately 220 new homes each year. Over the past five years, this average has been at the even greater rate of 280 new homes each year. Over the past two years, the City has added over 1 million square feet of commercial and industrial construction. We expect to continue this same pace through 1997 and perhaps through 1998 and beyond. As a result of this growth, the City of Ramsey finds itself facing many issues. First is that the public has been raising many questions about growth impacts upon their community Second, our planning efforts continually are found to be reactive. Third, our ability to manage this growth has been severely stressed.