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<br />r: <br />COMMERCIAL <br />OBJECTIVES: <br />Page 3 <br />1. To allow an appropriate range of businesses that satisfy <br />the convenience goods and service needs of residents. <br />2. To insure maximum compatibility with adjacent neighborhoods. <br />3. To improve the image of the commercial area at <br />Snelling/Larpenteur. <br />4. To improve access, traffic circulation and on-site parking <br />for the commercial area at Snelling/Larpenteur. <br />5. To provide convenient parking in sufficient amounts to <br />meet parking demand. <br />POLICIES <br />• 1. Guide development toward existing neighborhood/convenience <br />commercial areas in clusters rather than in strip developments <br />along major streets. <br />2. Require sufficient parking but encourage shared parking <br />with other land uses to minimize hard surface <br />coverage and improve the visual appearance of parking <br />areas. <br />3. Promote attractive parking areas by requiring <br />landscaped traffic islands and setback areas. <br />4. Encourage and facilitate aesthetic improvements to <br />building facades, parking, signs, landscaping and lighting <br />throughout the Snelling/Larpenteur commercial area. <br />5. Encourage building and sign designs to be in scale <br />with the small town character of the City. <br />6. Maximize land use compatibility by requiring buffering, <br />screening and landscaping between new commercial uses <br />and residential areas, and wherever possible, between <br />existing commercial uses and residential uses to minimize <br />conflicts. <br />• 7. Allow only one community-scale retail center at <br />Snelling/Larpenteur. <br />