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Ramsey County Multi-Hazard Mitigation Plan, 2018 Page | 41 4.2.2 Facility Replacement Costs Ramsey County-specific building data was sourced from the parcel tax databases and parcel polygon data included building valuations and occupancy class. Structure values for each parcel were aggregated within each parcel and assigned to the parcel centroid point. Records were aggregated to the relevant census administrative boundaries for the flood hazard analysis. This process also provided total facility replacement costs and total building exposure by general occupancy class (defined by Hazus tools). The total estimated building exposure for Ramsey County is shown in Table 16. Table 16. Ramsey County Total Building Exposure General Occupancy Parcels Containing Structures Total Building Exposure Agriculture 9 $3,897,000 Commercial 3,743 $5,073,026,000 Education 328 $2,591,880,000 Government 531 $1,435,393,000 Industrial 1,117 $1,324,280,000 Religious/Non-Profit 783 $934,922,000 Residential 147,439 $29,446,264,000 Total: 153,950 $40,809,662,000 4.3 Future Development Because Ramsey County is vulnerable to a variety of natural hazards, the county government—in partnership with the state government—must make a commitment to prepare for the management of these types of events. Ramsey County is committed to ensuring that county elected and appointed officials become informed leaders regarding community hazards so that they are better prepared to set and direct policies for emergency management and county response. There have been some changes in development, settlement patterns, and commercial land use patterns in Ramsey County since the last Multi-Hazard Mitigation Plan (2012). Ramsey County and the city of Arden Hills have completed a significant land purchase with the United States Army. That land, now known as the Rice Creek Commons, has been in the very early stages of development with some minor re-rerouting of Rice Creek and some road construction. The creek re-route will be kept primarily within the country park property. Infrastructure construction is expected to begin in 2019, residential and commercial development is set to begin in 2020. As residential and continued population growth occurs in Ramsey County, so does the demand for housing and increased potential to be vulnerable to hazard events. As stated earlier in the plan the population growth has slowly increased by 7.7% from 2010 census while the number of housing units increased by more than 59%. 14 manufactured homes parks are located throughout the county. The Ramsey County Emergency Management Coordinator will work to keep the jurisdictions covered by the Multi-Hazard Mitigation Plan engaged and informed during the plan’s cycle. By keeping jurisdictional leaders actively involved in the monitoring, evaluation and update of the MHMP, they will