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While the population forecast for the City is projected to increase between 2000 and 2010 • <br />and not at all between 2010 and 2030, 2006 estimates and the state of the housing market <br />in 2007 indicate it is more likely that at least one third of this projected growth will <br />happen after 2010. Most of the growth between 2000 and 2010 for both population and <br />households is accounted for by the Falcon Heights Town Square development at Snelling <br />and Larpenteur, constructed between 2003 and 2006. <br />Because (1) net employment in the city is expected to do little more than recover 2000 <br />levels by 2030, and (2) there is no land in the city for new commercial development, <br />employment changes in Falcon Heights should have little or no net impact on any of the <br />seven zones by 2030. The new Bell Museum will move jobs to Zone 916 in the 2010- <br />2020 decade. Expansion of the Ramsey County Historical Society operation will result in <br />a small employment gain in Zone 971, assigned to the 2020-2030 decade. <br />Most of the remaining expected net employment increase between will most likely take <br />place on the University Campus. The University of Minnesota master plan, when <br />complete, may require a reassessment of all of these forecasts. It should also be noted that <br />moving the Bell Museum of Natural History to Falcon Heights will bring thousands of <br />new visitors and their vehicles, including school buses, to Falcon Heights year round. <br />This could have more of an impact on traffic, especially in Zones 916, 917, 971 and 972, <br />than all employment changes expected in the next twenty years. <br />Please see the Land Use and Transportation sections of this plan for additional • <br />discussion. <br />• <br />Falcon Heights Comprehensive Plan 2008 Draft -January, 2008 Section I: Background, Page I-16 <br />