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• 5. Encourage and facilitate aesthetic improvements to building facades, parking, signage, landscaping and lighting throughout the Larpenteur Corridor and Snelling/Larpenteur commercial core. 6. Encourage building and sign designs to be in scale with the small town character of the City. 7. Maximize land use compatibility by requiring buffering, screening and landscaping between new commercial uses and residential areas and, wherever possible, between existing commercial uses and residential uses to minimize conflicts. 8. Require that any redevelopment project that may logically extend beyond the area already zoned for commercial use have a straight boundary that generally correlates with a public street line or the rear lot lines of residences and take all of the property to the project boundary. Further, where such extension of a project takes place, extraordinary setbacks and landscaping be required to mitigate neighborhood impacts and storm water runoff and to conserve open land. 5. Agricultural and Institutional Comprising two-thirds of the City's total area, the University of Minnesota St. Paul campus/golf course and the State Fair are the uses that have the potential to most • influence growth over the next 20 years. Both institutions are autonomous which means that the City has no regulatory authority so long as land is used for its intended public purposes. While both institutions provide most of their own services, continuing close communication is essential to minimize conflict and coordinate public service deliveries. Particular attention needs to be given to transit and sanitary sewer coordination/ cooperation and to emergency preparedness. University of Minnesota The St. Paul campus, comprising 452 acres, houses the University's Colleges of Biological Science, Veterinary Medicine, Food/Agriculture/Natural Resources and part of the College of Design, as well as the Raptor Center. The campus had a 2007 enrollment of approximately 6000 students and a dormitory population of 505 students (Bailey Hall). (The University no longer separates enrollment statistics for the two Twin Cities campuses, counting them as one.) Additionally, Commonwealth Terrace, a married student apartment complex, contains 464 housing units, of which 331 are in Falcon Heights and 133 are in St. Paul. Following a decline in the 1980s and 1990s, enrollment has increased significantly since 2000 on the Twin Cities campuses. Demand for student housing near campus has also increased. Private development of new student housing on University land could come under the City's land use jurisdiction. Only one such project is under consideration at this • time within Falcon Heights, a proposed fraternity house at the southeast corner of Commonwealth and Cleveland adjacent to Commonwealth Terrace. Falcon Heights Comprehensive Plan 2008 Draft -January, 2008 Part II: Land Use & Housing, Page II-35