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• Anoka County Multi- Jurisdictional All Hazards Mitigation Plan Private fee areas: Within the City of Bethel, there are no private fee areas. Agriculture and forestry: The City of Bethel has an abundance of trees, and there is the Bethel Wildlife Management Area, DNR Land 40 Acres in size. Commercial and industrial development and trends: The City of Bethel maintains constant growth. Since 2000, the City has added 13 industrial buildings of commercial /retail space. Residential development and trends: The City has a sustained little growth with a population increase of 2.5% on average of growth per year. Infrastructure and infrastructure projects: There are few planned infrastructure projects. For utilities, the City will be attempting to install City Water and extend sewer lines through town to accommodate residential development. BURNS TOWNSHIP Geographic location and characteristics: The latitude of Burns is 45.33N. The longitude is 93.44W. Burns Township is located in the northwest corner of Anoka County, Minnesota. Burns Township is bordered by the City of Ramsey on the south, the City of Oak Grove on the east, the City of St. Francis on the north, and the City of Elk River (located in Sherburne County) on the west. The township has a total area of 35.2 miles. Of this total, 33.8 miles is land and 1.4 miles water. The total area is 3.95% water. There are 11 lakes in Burns, with Twin Lake being the largest. Public lands: Ownership of the Twin Lakes County Park (63 acres) will be turned over to Burns Township in 2006. This public park will have trails, fishing, play areas and a pond /natural area within it. The trails within this park will connect up to trails currently being developed within neighborhood developments in the township. Private fee areas: A State Wildlife Management area (40 acres) is located within the township. This public land is open land, which can be used by the public for hunting. Agriculture and forestry: Wetlands consist of 4,927 acres and 14,294 acres are undeveloped /agricultural use. In 2000 there was 1,159 acres classified as Open Water Bodies. Commercial and industrial development and trends: Within Burns, as of 2000, there was 11 acres with the land use of Commercial Retail businesses and 5 acres in Industrial businesses. Also in 2000, Burns had 40 acres with Industrial use and 14 acres in parks. Currently the Burns Town Center and the Burns Commercial Park are being developed. Within these commercial developments currently there is a large restaurant, banquet hall rental facility, bar & grille establishment, mini storage, electric business, nursery, welding and plumbing businesses. Also very recently, Burns Township has had its first bank open for business. Within Burns Township there is additional land, currently zoned Highway Commercial, available for development. This land located along Highway 47, and land along County Road 5 and County Road 22 has been discussed as future possible commercial areas. Residential development and trends: A total of 2,063 acres are residential land use and within this number 439 acres are classified farmstead use. In 2000 Burns only had a total of 7 acres with multifamily use. Burns Township currently has (20) new residential developments near completion. Within these developments there are (117) Tots open for future single - family