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1 1 · I I I I: I I I I I~ I- I I II. I~ I I I; City of Ramsey 15153 NOWTHEN BOULEVARD N.W., RAMSEY, MINNESOTA 55303 . (612)427-1410 Lynda V oge, Referrals Coordinator Metropolitan Council Mears Park Centre 230 East Fifth Street St. Paul, MN 55101-1634 Regarding: MUSA/Minor Comprehensive Plan Amendment Dear Ms. Voge: Enclosed for Metropolitan Council review are five copies of a minor comprehensive plan amendment for the City of Ramsey. The City of Ramsey, via a submittal dated January 26, 1989, proposed MUSA expansion by 405 acres. The Metropolitan Council, on July 13, 1989, approved an extension of 200 acres and, subject to conditions, approved the remaining 205 acres. This minor comprehensive plan amendment is based on those submittals, and requests a ponion of the 205 acre ponion equaling a 44 gross acre expansion. The conditional approval required Metropolitan Council review and approval of three city policy issues. These are related to rural residential development density, to prohibition of on-site sewer systems in the MUSA area and to mandatory connection to the municipal sewer systems when service is available within the MUSA. These requirements were immediately met by City resolution and have subsequently been implemented by adoption of City ordinances. The applicable ordinances are included in the appendix of this submittal. This data is also responsive to the Metropolitan Council staff repon dated July 20, 1989. The Metropolitan Council staff repon included a number of requests that, while not conditions of approval, were identified as desirable comprehensive plan amendments. These issues have been addressed in this submittal and include: 1. MWCC monitoring of Anoka WWTP flows, MWCC evaluation of early phase out of the Anoka VVWTP and an understanding that City of Ramsey REC's will be limited to 500 between January 1989 and the completion by the MWCC of the plant phase out unless monitoring data shows that additional flow is allowable (repon items 5, 6 and 7). 2. The City of Ramsey providing data on sewered household and flow projections and incorporates the required on-site system and mandatory connection ordinances into sewer policies (repon items 4,8 and 9). 3. The comprehensive plan should comment on (reponitems 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16,& 17): a) Regional trail along the Mississippi River b) Inconsistency of Mississippi River bridge that is proposed by the City c) Continued City consideration of a T.H.#lO frontage road d) Continued City review of land use compatibility adjacent to the airpon e) Continued City review of land use compatibility adjacent to the sanitary landfill and to "Site P"