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e e .Ramsey Critical Area Plan Page 3 9 ~ 1 and 2. Comments on future land use combined with those for p. 18 # 3 and listed below. 12 ~ 1. As discussed above, the Mississippi River has not been managed and regulated by the City through the Shoreland Management Act. This should be omitted. The second paragraph on p. 13 could also be omitted, or it could be referenced as it relates to protected waters outside the Corridor but within the Mississippi River watershed. It appears the authors wanted to add the date for the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act. It was adopted in 1973. A moot correction (based on above comment) is that the Shoreland Management Act was passed in 1969, not 1973. 12 ~ 2. Please note that the Urban Developed District only includes Section 35, T32N, R25W. It is not equivalent to the lands that were in the Metropolitan Council's urban services area. The Rural Open Space District includes all of Section 34 and upstream. See Executive Order 79-19, Appendix B, for corroboration. 15 # 2. Same comment as above on applicability of shoreland management provisions. What was the intended result for the first clause? It might be more appropriate to require that riverfront development adheres to state and local regulated Critical Area and Wild and Scenic River standards. 15 # 3. Given Executive Order 79-19 standards C. 2. (e), we would recommend adding in "...and establish a plan for amortization and replacement use." This is also a good place to add in the Critical Area Plan requirement to prohibit the reconstruction of nonconforming uses which are 50% market value destroyed. It is particularly important for the Plan to back up the ordinance and not be inconsistent. 15 # 5 and 6. See comments below on future land use. Also note that Critical Area requires for Plans and Ordinances that for all of the Corridor for the development of residential, commercial, and industrial subdivisions, and planned developments, a developer shall be required to dedicate to the public reasonable portions of appropriate riverfront access land or other lands in interest. In the event of practical difficulties or physical impossibility, the developer shall be required to contribute an equivalent amount of cash to be used only for acquisition of land for parks, open space, storm water drainage areas or other public services within the Corridor. 15 # 7. I'm confused by the policy and use of the terms here. Why would you want site plans for the small Corridor area marked as "rural developing district" to have to strictly adhere to the "Mixed Residential performance criteria?" Are you