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188 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Figure 46: Illustration of the newly completed one million-dollar Elmcrest Park Community Building with public <br />restrooms <br />In addition to many more parks and recreation facilities on the west side of the Rum River than the <br />east, there is an area of retail services (restaurants etc.) that are presently accessed by trails on <br />both sides of T. H. #47 north of the Central Anoka County Regional Trail at Bunker Lake Boulevard. <br /> <br />Within the Linking Regional Trails definitions in the 2040 Policy Plan, indicates that: “Visitor <br />origin data from the [Metropolitan] Council’s 2008 Regional Parks and Trails Survey indicate <br />that regional trails in the metropolitan area are used most by people who live nearby or can reach <br />the trail in a short bicycle trip or drive. Therefore, a priority is to develop more trail corridors in <br />the Metropolitan Urban Service Area, where more than 90% of the population lives”. <br />Ramsey has many thousands of residents in the Metropolitan Urban Service Area within 1.5 miles <br />of the proposed, realigned Rum River Regional Trail. <br />In concluding, the Alternate Alignment Study would explore moving this proposed regional trail <br />from the east side of the river to the west, (#3 from green to the red dashed line west of the Rum <br />River above).