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Areas of Potential Change Except for a few vacant residentially zoned parcels, Falcon Heights is fully developed. The City's unique composition includes the University of Minnesota's agricultural research fields. This land is not considered vacant by the City or the University. Therefore, it is not in new development, but in redevelopment where Falcon Heights will see changes over the next twenty years. Vacant land. The only vacant land for development in the city's land use controls is one vacant lot on Tatum Street, zoned R-4, and a site of approximately 4 acres that is in a single-family residential zone [map?]. At the present time, this vacant land is divided into eight separate parcels, all but one belonging to the adjacent homeowners. None of these parcels have street access. Although these and other constraints make it unlikely that this site will be developed in the next ten or even twenty years, the City evaluated this area's development potential in the past and determined some minimal criteria that must be addressed by any future developer to guarantee that it would be developed according to sound land use planning practices. These criteria include developing the site as a whole rather than on a lot-by-lot basis. It is likely that this would be developed as a planned unit development with densities being determined at the time of the development. At this time other properties closer to Larpenteur are considered far more suitable and likely to be redeveloped to accommodate anticipated housin ng eeds Redevelopment: The Larpenteur Corridor. As of the last comprehensive plan, the largest • potential site for redevelopment was the southeast corner of Snelling-and Larpenteur. Now that this project has been completed, there are no immediate candidates for redevelopment in 2007. However, several of the larger commercial properties are underutilized, and the existing apartment buildings are aging, so it is likely that opportunities for redevelopment will arise during the next twenty years. Most of these sites are on Larpenteur Avenue, an important bus transit route, so a chief focus of the City's planning will be the "Larpenteur Corridor." Given the unlikelihood of University of Minnesota land being made available for development, it will be redevelopment of properties in the Larpenteur Corridor that will provide the additional housing and business development Falcon Heights is expected to need by 2030. Changes to Public Lands. The construction of a new Bell Museum of Natural History on the southwest corner of Larpenteur and Cleveland Avenues (scheduled to open in 2010) will bring many visitors to Falcon Heights. Intramural recreational fields presently occupying the site will be moved, the northeast corner of Cleveland and Larpenteur being discussed as a possible site. With Gibbs Museum of Pioneer and Dakotah Life (Ramsey County Historical Society) • across Larpenteur Avenue to the north, and the proximity to University recreational Assembled Elements, Draft 1 FH Comp Plan 2007 Page 15 of 42