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• • Anoka County Multi- Jurisdictional All Hazards Mitigation Plan The major retail area of the City is located at Trunk Highway 65 and Crosstown Blvd. This area contains the supermarket, bank, library, and numerous smaller retail facilities. The City will continue to focus to develop /redevelop this area. Neighborhood commercial centers are and will be used to provide convenience facilities in the eastern portion of the City. Residential development and trends: Currently, the City has six residential zoning categories: R -1 (Single - Family Residential); R -A (Rural Single Family Residential); RS -1 (Shoreland Residential — General Development); RS -2 (Shoreland Residential — Recreational Development); PUD (Planned Unit Development); and R -AH (Affordable Housing District). The City of Ham Lake has approximately 4,600 dwelling units (which includes approximately 450 units for low- income families and senior citizens), with room for perhaps another 1,600. Included in this total are 285 mobile home units in the Flamingo Terrace Mobile Home Park. 90% of all housing in the City is single - family housing. Only about 2/3 of the City's 23,040 acres are even capable of being developed, but approximately 2,560 acres of this are (or will be) used for parklands, road right -of -way, commercial uses and golf courses, reducing the developable area for residential use to about 58% of the total land area (approximately 13,363 acres). The City prefers to continue to allow all development at a residential density of 1.0 acre per unit, both to keep a rural feel and the logistics of attempting to service a community with a municipal sewer /water system that is comprised of approximately one -third wetlands. Users of the sewer system must pay for the system, and the cost extending lines across hundreds of acres of wetlands to serve relatively small and isolated pockets of residential development is considered prohibitive. It is estimated that that by 2015 the City will be fully developed, with a housing population of 19,500. This future plan will include approximately 650 housing units available for low- income families and senior citizens. There is no organized historical preservation entity in the City, although Anoka County maintains an active and effective historical society. One site (a pioneer church building) is maintained by the parent congregation. Infrastructure and infrastructure projects: Ham Lake infrastructure includes a major State Trunk Highway 65 passing through from south to north. County Roads 116, 16, 18, 52, 60, 61, 68, and 17 also bisect Ham Lake. While only one road leading out of the City to the east, the natural barrier created by the Carlos Avery Game Preserve makes this situation necessary and permanent. Intra -City travel if provided by north /south collectors (University Avenue, Radisson Road, Xylite Street and Naples Street). County Roads 116, 16, 18 and 149th Avenue NE, provides the east/west collection function. Currently the City is served only by individual private septic systems and wells. In March 2005 the City contracted to have a study completed regarding the feasibility of a sanitary sewer and water supply. The planning area included the Trunk Highway 65 corridor from 169th Avenue to the City's north border, and a corridor out to and around Coon Lake. This system could be tentatively joined with a system proposed by the City of East Bethel, which abuts the city to the north.