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<br />. . <br /> <br />City of Ramsey <br />Comprehensive Plan Amendment <br />Land Use Element <br /> <br />Table 2--5 <br />GROSS ACREAGES IN LAND USE CATEGORIES <br />IN STUDY AREA <br /> <br /> Area in <br />Acres in Land Use Desi2nations Acres <br />Simde Family Residential 856.12 <br />Mixed Residential 71.85 <br />Commercial/Industrial 1121.67 <br />Open Space 339.93 <br />TOTAL 2389.57 <br /> <br />Within the CommerciallIndustrial designation, the policy is to encourage groupings of <br />compatible businesses and discourage individual, freestanding businesses that conflict with <br />surrounding uses. The purpose is to provide for business locations that are convenient, <br />easy to provide with suitable access, and properly related to abutting residential <br />development and the transportation system. <br /> <br />The City Council recognizes the Comprehensive Plan as the policy adopted to regulate <br />land use and development in accordance with the policies and purpose set forth in the <br />Zoning Chapter. The Land Use Map shows the planned land uses established as City <br />policy. Decisions on rezoning requests will be guided by the land use designations as well <br />as by other policy tools. <br /> <br />The 1995 amendments to the Metropolitan Land Planning Act mandate that <br /> <br />If the comprehensive IXlwncipal plan is in conflict with. the zoning ordinance, the zoning <br />ordinance shall be brought into conformance with the plan by local government units in <br />conjunction with the review and, ifnecessaIy, amendment of its comprehensive plan roquircd <br />under section 473.864, subdivision 2. After August 1. 1995, a local government unit shall not <br />adopt any fiscal device or offieial control which is in confJ,ict with its oomprehensive plan, <br />including any amendments to the plan., or which pennits activity in oonflict with metropolitan <br />system plans... The comprehensive plan shall provide guidelines for the timing and sequence of <br />the adoption of official controls to ensure planned, orderly, and staged development and <br />redevelopment consistent with the comprehensive plan. <br />473.858 subd. 1, as amended by MN Laws Ch 176 <br /> <br />By December 31. 1998, and at least once every ten years thereafter. each local governmental unit <br />shall review and, if necessary, amend its entire comprehensive plan and its fiscal devices and <br />official controls. Such review and, if necessary, amendment shall ensure that..: the fiscal devices <br />and official controls of each local government unit are not in conflict with its comprehensive <br />plan. <br /> <br />473.864 subd. 2 as amended byMN Laws Ch 176 <br /> <br />page 2-14 <br />