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• land in Area A, mostly for manufacturing and warehousing facilties with <br /> small office components. Some pure office space will also be needed in — <br /> Elk River, but this is not expected to be a major element in Area A. <br /> Total Land Demand Forecast to Year 2000: <br /> The above forecast of residential demand amounts to approximately 338 <br /> acres through the end of the century. Combined with the forecast annual L, <br /> industrial absorption of five to eight acres per year, the 20 acres devoted <br /> to the Sherburne County Government Center, this means that Area A <br /> may be approximately three—quarters developed by the Year 2000. L1 <br /> (Assumes fairgrounds are relocated.) <br /> This also means that it will not be easy to quickly extend utilities all the <br /> L1 <br /> way to west of the County offices for industrial or commercial develop— i <br /> ment along Highway 10. If the City is going to follow the 1988 Land L <br /> Use Plan from the Growth Management Study, it may have to extend j <br /> utilities across land well in advance of market demand. Alternatively, it L <br /> could search for an alternative site for industrial expansion for the 1992 <br /> 1110 to 1998 time period while Area A grows from southeast to northwest. <br /> City Road System Plan ] <br /> The Growth Management Study recommended a new industrial collector <br /> road loop from Highway 10 to Waco Street. Other collector roads needed <br /> to serve this area are already in place with Waco Street, County Road 30, L, <br /> and Orono Road. <br /> C_4 <br /> Land Ownership and Parcelization <br /> More than ninety percent of Area A is owned by only eleven parties, P <br /> including Sherburne County and the City of Elk River. <br /> Green Acres Program <br /> All of the private, undeveloped property in Area A (except for the Gagne <br /> and Gospodor parcels -- approximately 81 acres) is enrolled in the <br /> State's "Green Acres" program, under which special assessments and <br /> • <br /> 28 <br />