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Mixed Use Commercial/Residential: The new multi-use complex at Falcon Heights <br />Town Square in the southeast quadrant of the Snelling/Larpenteur Commercial Core is <br />unlikely to be the only such development in Falcon Heights. In addition to the existing <br />categories of commercial/business use, the City intends to establish a new flexible multi- <br />use category that can encompass both residential and commercial use. <br />Recognizing the projected need for approximately 208 additional housing units in Falcon <br />Heights in the next twenty years, it is the City's intent to encourage additional residential <br />capacity combined, as appropriate, with commercial use if redevelopment is proposed for <br />any properties in the Larpenteur Corridor. Any such project will be individually <br />designed, 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 />SneIling/Larpenteur. <br />6. To provide convenient parking in sufficient amounts to meet parking demand. <br />7. To provide high density mixed use development <br />{1/R~} 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 />Assembled Elements, Draft 1 FH Comp Plan 2007 Page 30 of 42 <br />