Minor Amendment-MUSA Expansion Requests

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~ i FINDINGS 1. As part of a plan amendment review in 1989, the Metropolitan Council required the city of Ramsey to concentrate development in a defined urban service area and limit development in the rural service area, tightly regulate on-site septic systems, define sewer service availability and complete a comprehensive traffic analysis of the impact planned land uses will have on'TH 10, a metropolitan highway. The city has proposed policies and completed a traffic analysis as part of this plan amendment to accomplish these four tasks. 2 The city of Ramsey has demonstrated that a regional need exists for the proposed 44-acre Metropolitan Urban Service Area expansion. 3. The city's comprehensive traffic analysis demonstrates that by the year 2010 planned land uses in the city of Ramsey will exceed the capacity of TH 10 by nearly 200 percent. 4. The city of Ramsey has requested the Metropolitan Council to facilitate and participate in a TH 10 corridor study. The purpose of this corridor study is to address capacity problems on TH 10. 5. The 44-acre Metropolitan Urban Service Area expansion will have little impact on the Anoka Wastewater Treatment Plant. Little additional discharge to the facility could be allowed beyond the 44-acre MUSA expansion, however, until after 1993 and phase-out of the plant is complete. 6. The Metropolitan Council has recently adopted an interim strategy to reduce nonpoint source pollution to all water bodies in the metropolitan area. This strategy was not used to review the proposed plan amendment because the strategy was adopted by the Council after receiving the plan amendment. 7. The Gateway Airport in the city of Ramsey is part of the metropolitan aviation system. This facility has recently been closed and removed from the city's comprehensive plan map. 8. A segment of the proposed North Mississippi Regional Trail is located on the property the city of Ramsey has proposed for addition to the MUSA The segment of the trail included in this plan amendment will provide a connection to Mississippi-West, an Anoka County park on the Mississippi River. RECOMMENDATIONS That the Metropolitan Council: 1. Adopt the staff report and findings as stated above as part of these recommendations. 2 Inform the city of Ramsey that it may place the amendment into effect and no plan modification is required. 3. Recommend that the city of Ramsey participate in a joint city/county comprehensive traffic analysis that evaluates the potential impact planned land uses will have on TH 10. Land use strategies should be developed in conjunction with highway system management strategies to