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29 <br />• of the larger commercial properties. Any such project will be individually designed, <br />most likely as a planned unit development. <br />CommercialBusiness Objectives <br />1. To allow an appropriate range of businesses that satisfy the convenience goods and <br />service needs of residents. <br />2. To insure maximum compatibility with adjacent neighborhoods. <br />3. To ensure access and safety for pedestrians and those using non-motorized <br />transportation <br />4. To improve the image and function of the Larpenteur Corridor and the Commercial <br />Core at Snelling/Larpenteur. <br />5. To improve access, traffic circulation and on-site parking for the Commercial Core at <br />Snelling/Larpenteur. <br />6. To provide convenient parking in sufficient amounts to meet parking demand. <br />7. To provide high density mixed use development ;~ ..~,,,.* ~~ r ;,.i.* ~ ~;' -r,.,,,,~;~ <br />(-I~~=} close to bus transit routes when larger sites are redeveloped. [?] <br />• CommercialBusiness Policies <br />1. Guide development toward existing neighborhood/ convenience commercial areas in <br />clusters rather than in strip developments along major streets. <br />2. Require health impact assessments and environmental impact assessments for new <br />development or redevelopement. [Traffic impact also?] <br />3. Require sufficient parking but encourage shared parking with other land uses to <br />minimize hard surface coverage and improve the visual appearance of parking areas. <br />4. Promote attractive parking areas and infiltration by requiring landscaped traffic <br />islands and setback areas. <br />5. Encourage and facilitate aesthetic improvements to building facades, parking, <br />signage, landscaping and lighting throughout the Larpenteur Corridor and <br />Snelling/Larpenteur Commercial Core. <br />6. Encourage building and sign designs to be in scale with the small town character of <br />the City. <br />7. Maximize land use compatibility by requiring buffering, screening and landscaping <br />between new commercial uses and residential areas and, wherever possible, between <br />existing commercial uses and residential uses to minimize conflicts. <br />• <br />