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St. Anthony 2040 Comprehensive Plan Chapter 3: Community Profile 9 CHAPTER 3: C OMMUNITY PROFILE HISTORY OF ST. ANTHONY VILLAGE St. Anthony Village is a first-ring suburb located just north and east of Minneapolis, and its 2.35 square miles in land area span across both Hennepin and Ramsey counties. St. Anthony is bordered by Minneapolis to the west and is also adjacent to Roseville to its east, New Brighton to the northeast, and Columbia Heights to the northwest. Originally part of the larger St. Anthony Township, the area now known as St. Anthony Village became an incorporated municipality in 1945. In the years following World War II, housing demand increased rapidly and St. Anthony’s landscape was transformed from a rural area into an urbanized and largely residential location. THE LAND Existing Land Use Existing land use can be thought of as what actually exists on the ground at the present time, regardless what has been planned or what zoning regulations exist. The most accurate depiction of what land uses currently exist in St. Anthony come from the Metropolitan Council’s 2016 Generalized Land Use map, which uses a combination of aerial photography, county parcel data and community “ground truthing” to provide current land use types by acreage. The existing Land Use in St. Anthony is typical of a post-WWII, first-ring suburb community. Over 40 percent of its 1,508 acres are devoted to single family detached housing. Perhaps unique for a community the size and age of St. Anthony is the amount of redevelopment in the form of multifamily and attached housing, consisting of about 155 acres or 10 percent of the total land area. Existing land use types, total acreage and percent of total acreage are shown in the table below. As a fully-developed inner-ring suburb community, very little land in the City remains undeveloped.