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Community, Residential and Neighborhood Development The Lino Lakes community is expected to experience a period of population, housing and commercial growth. Planning for growth is the city's greatest challenge and opportunity. A positive outcome is not achieved through denial or regression. It is achieved through imagination, planning, and responsible stewardship. There are three opportunities to be realized: • The opportunity to imagine and achieve a robust and exciting future that reflects unique creativity, is carefully planned, amenity driven, preserves what the community values, and reflects the citizens' dreams • The opportunity to assert civic, political, and community leadership committed to and guided by a strategic plan that achieves the desired future to the fullest extent realistically possible. • The opportunity to make Lino Lakes the "show case" community it has demonstrated it has the capacity to become — a great place to live, work and play — and a model for other communities to follow. 2030 Vision Lino Lakes is a well- designed and aesthetically pleasing community that has retained its strong sense of identity and pride, neighborhood orientation, and commitment to preserving its many precious and unique natural resources and amenities. These assets contribute to the quality of life valued and enjoyed by its citizens. The citizens of Lino Lakes have achieved, enhanced, and sustained their community, rich in quality and spirit, through conserving and preserving that which they value and desire. They have achieved this through sound comprehensive planning and accompanying official controls, and the creation and application of strategic innovations in community planning and development. Goal 1: Create and adopt a Comprehensive Plan that fosters a unified vision and future for the city, promotes .a well- planned community, prevents fragmented development, addresses the impacts of development an d redevelopment on natural aesthetics and view corridors, and provides balanced land use and connectivity that ensures the integration of both sides of the regional park. 4 Rationale: A carefully created Comprehensive Plan will ensure the community's ability to grow in a rational and responsible manner, preclude decision making processes that overlook long -range land use implications, and help ensure fulfillment of citizens' desires for a well - planned community and preservation of their quality of life. 9