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~ ~~i~9~?'~~~:i~n~~:~~~~re :~~~;Z.S~~0'1 ... January 13, 1999 Cindy Sherman, Community Development Director City of Ramsey 15153 Nowthen Blvd NW Ramsey, MN 55303 RE: City of Ramsey Informal review ofthe November 9, 1998 Draft Comprehensive Plan Metropolitan Council District 9 Referral File No. 16806-2 Dear Ms. Sherman: On November 13. 1998, you requested that the Metropolitan Council staff complete an informal review of the city of Ramsey's draft comprehensive plan dated November 9, 1998 to determine whether it meets the ~etropolitan Land Planning Act requirements for the 1998 plan updates. Our staff informally reviewed the plan for conformity with the regional system plans, as well as for consistency with the Regional Blueprint and other chapters of the Metropolitan Development Guide. Lastly, we compared the plan with our Local Planning Handbook, which outlines plan content requirements. We offer the following advisory comments. Regional Blueprint Land Use -- (Jim Uttley, AICP, 651-602-1361) This section of the plan has addressed all of the required subelements of the land use plan section of a comprehensive plan (land use, historic preservation, solar access, and surface w.iter management). The Mississippi River Critical Area plan is not included in the draft comprehensive plan that the Council received. As submitted, this section of the plan would be found to be incomplete. The Regional Growth Strategy (RGS) in the Regional Blueprint identifies the city of Ramsey being partiaUy urban, partially inside the 2040 urban reserve and partially permanent rural. The Council's forecasts reflect the Regional Growth Strategy for using land and existing regional facilities efficiently, and for serving as an initial target to encourage communities to accommodate additional development. The draft plan correctly identifies the Council's forecasts for the City in Table 8 (p. 21) of the plan, but fails to supply a similar table showing the City's own, proposed forecasts based on its proposed land use plan. From past discussions with the City, Council staff has been led to believe that the proposed plan will result in substantially fewer households, population and employment than the Council forecasts. This needs to be clearly documented in the plan. (Side Note: the population shown in Table 8 for 1990 is incorrect, that number is the actual 1980 population; other tables show the correct 1990 population). The plan should include both data and a map to indicate the locations and intensities of existing and proposed land uses in the City. This map/data should differentiate between lands inside the existing AREA CODE CHANGES TO 651 IN JULY, 1998 230 East Fifth Street St. Paul, Minnesota 5510 1-1626 (612) 602-1000 Fax 602-1550 TDD/TIY 291-0904 Metro Info Line 602-1888 An Equal Opportwlity Employer