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Action Step 3.B. The Metropolitan Council will retain the current urban service area boundary, making appropriate changes after verifying land demand and supply with local governments along the boundary line. The Metropolitan Council will make changes in the current urban service area boundary consistent with regional policies, local plans to stage growth, aggregate land demand and supply within regional sectors and clusters of communities, and the capabilities of the regional systems. Action Step 3.E. The Metropolitan Council will give top priority for funds for regional systems to maintaining, upgrading and replacing system facilities serving existing urban development to make the best use of investments the region has already made. The Rural Service Area Action Step 3.G. The Metropolitan Council will not support extensive development in the rural service area. However, the Metropolitan Council will support low density residential developments at densities of no more than one unit per 10 acres, with a maximum of 64 units per 640 acre parcel (one square mile). It should not affect prime farmlands or areas certified or covenanted as part of the agricultural preserves program. Appropriate rural land uses must meet all environmental quality standards, not require urban -level support services, and be of a scale to serve local market demands. Action Steps 3.H. The Metropolitan Council will support agriculture as the primary long-term land use in the rural service area. The Metropolitan Council will give priority to the protection of those prime agriculture lands most capable of supporting long-term agriculture production, specifically "prime farmland" or Class I, II, III and irrigated Class IV soils. In a prime farmland area, the Council will support a density of one housing unit per 40 acres if the housing unit is part of a farming operation. Metropolitan Council MUSA Expansion Criteria In addition to aforementioned MUSA guidelines, the Regional Blueprint outlines specific criteria for increasing the size of an urban service. These criteria were used in the formulation of this Lino Lake Comprehensive Plan amendment. The City intends to demonstrate that its local objectives for land development are consistent with that of the Metropolitan Council. 2