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• Ensure commercial development and mixed -use areas are evenly and appropriately <br />dispersed throughout the city. <br />Goal 4: Maintain safe neighborhoods and community areas. <br />Rationale: A sense of security is important to neighborhood quality and maintaining <br />housing values. <br />Strategies: <br />• Maintain and ensure strong community support for the city's fire and police <br />departments. <br />• Encourage community involvement in National Night Out and Crime Watch. <br />• Develop neighborhoods with mixed housing styles that promote diversity and attract <br />all age groups. <br />Goal 5 improve availability of affordable and life -cycle housing <br />• <br />Rationale: Lino Lakes, as a developing city, is expected to accommodate the projected <br />housing needs, entry level through retirement, of the community's population. <br />Strategies: <br />• Work with developers to identify innovative strategies for providing entry -level and <br />life cycle housing. <br />• Use redevelopment tools to revitalize aging residential properties, made possible by <br />various federal, state, local government, and non - profit programs. <br />• Provide expanded opportunities for housing ownership made available by various <br />federal, state, local government and non - profit agencies. <br />• Streamline permitting and development processes to ease the rehabilitation or <br />improvement of existing homes and reduce unwarranted cost impacts on the price of <br />entry -level homes. <br />• Provide for and designate appropriate areas for high- density and mixed -use <br />development. <br />s for senior housing <br />Rationale: As Lino Lakes continues to grow and develop, it must also accommodate the <br />housing needs of a growing aging population. <br />11 <br />