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Land use within the vicinity of Demont Avenue is a mixture of commercial, public <br />and residential (see Land Use Map, Figure 3). The area is bisected by a Soo Line <br />railroad track. Commercial development is clustered along Rice Street and Little <br />Canada Road. There are multi - family residential areas along I -35E accessible by <br />Viking Drive, County Road B -2 and Demont Avenue. Two schools are located within <br />the area, Capitol View Middle School and Kellogg High School. Other land use is <br />single - family residential. <br />COMPREHENSIVE PLAN RECOMMENDATIONS <br />There is overlap between local and collector functional classification and jurisdic- <br />tional classification. The County and cities both have collectors and locals under <br />their jurisdiction. Ramsey County Comprehensive Plan, 1980, recommends that roads <br />which are functionally classified as locals and are under county jurisdiction should <br />be reviewed for their contribution to county residents. The County believes that <br />roads which do not perform a county function, as most local roads do not, are more <br />appropriately administered by local (municipal)' jurisdictions. If Demont Road, <br />therefore, is appropriately classified as a local road which does not perform a function <br />within the county road network, a recommendation can be made that it should be <br />removed from the County's jurisdiction. <br />FUNCTIONAL CLASSIFICATION <br />Demont Avenue is classified currently as a local road. According to the Metropolitan <br />Council's functional classification criteria, which Ramsey County's Comprehensive <br />Plan has adopted, local roads are within neighborhoods and collectors are on edges <br />or within neighborhoods. Collectors connect neighborhoods within and between sub- <br />regions. Locals connect blocks within neighborhoods. Collector spacing is recommended <br />at 0.25 to 1.0 miles and local spacing at one block. <br />2 <br />17 <br />