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<br />• <br />COMMERCIAL AREAS/BUSINESSES <br />(Page 26 of the Comprehensive Plan) <br />Plan Elements <br />Based on the lack of a vacant land resource and the adequacy of <br />commercial. services in the general market area, the City of <br />Falcon Heights does not intend to create additional commercial <br />areas. Instead, it intends to improve and redevelop existing <br />commercial business areas, particularly the Snelling/Larpenteur <br />Commercial Core, in a manner that is in keeping with competitive <br />contemporary retail/service standards of design and quality for a <br />community oriented business district while minimizing impacts on <br />ad acent residential areas ..... ......... .. .. <br />The Land Use Plan establishes three categories of <br />commercial/business use including the Snelling/Larpenteur <br />Commercial Core, Neighborhood Convenience and Limited Business as <br />follows: <br />Snelling/Larpenteur Commercial Core This embraces all four <br />quadrants of the intersection of Larpenteur and Snelling Avenues <br />where it is the intent of the City to see the core improved as <br />the community's only major commercial/shopping center. It is <br />intended that the core maintain its mixed use character, that it <br />be substantially upgraded and redeveloped, as appropriate, to <br />improve its commercial viabilit ~~~~~~~>~~~~ri:~z~~~:'~`<?<> ~:<~~~"-:~~>.::.;;:: <.:.: <br />An exception may include the expansion of the Prior Avenue <br />Limited Business area westerly to Cleveland Avenue should the <br />University choose to divest itself of these agricultural lands. <br />This would provide for an additional 20 acres of limited <br />commercial development. <br />