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Planning Comm. Minutes -2- June 2, .1980 4. Greening areas would then be put in front of the buildings, all on Snelling and Larpenteur Avenues, to make it much more attractive and act as a buffer to the traffic areas. a. The question of financing and cooperation of businesses came up and Mr. Dale said that some other cities have, when a building permit has been required by a business, state that they may surely have the permit; however, they must fix up the front of the building, or whatever the plan might call for. 5. Maintenance of all the landscaped areas could be taken care of in several ways, i.e., hiring a landscape firm, having city employees in Public Works, taking care of the landscape, hiring high school youths or CETA employees to take care of the area, or a garden club or businesses. Mr. Dale showed several different pictures of lighting structures, which would be maintained by NSP, and one in particular was the most prominent: It produced the high pressure sodium lighting, but residential areas could be shielded from the source of the light, and it casts a shadow that was quite large and would illuminate the area very well. We also went-into aspects. of other beautifying aspects of the. business districts, i.e., vandal proof planters, benches, trash disposers, etc. He spoke about the population and felt it would behove us to look very clcsely into additional multi-dwelling type housing that would assure us that our population would. not drop below the "magic" 5000 figure--in the future. He suggested putting. some behind the property that St. Jude's is considering, perhaps subdividing some of the deeper properties (at which point Sandy Larson said that included her property and she really wasn't too interested in ,that) The University doesn't have a policy on housing and there is relative no funding for student housing anyway, but they. would add additional housing if funds were available, on the campus--approximately room for 100 additional persons. The family is decreasing in size and there are other situations that could affect our population in the future. We should strive to attract young families and he went into several aspects of this. Employees will be up and actually we are in the same category . as Arden Hills, Shoreview and North St. Paul.